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TO POINTS OF LITERARY INTEREST 

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INTRODUCTION 

There are many good reasons for coming to Boston, 
whether for pleasure or for profit. In summer it is an 
excellent watering-place ; many beautiful and comfort- 
able spots are within easy reach, by steamboat and steam 
or electric cars. Though many monuments are now only 
memories, it still holds in its keeping some historical 
landmarks dear to all Americans. Its older parts are 
quaint, unusual, and often venerable. 

Its intellectual repute is one of the influences which 
draw visitors hither. Too much may have been said about 
it, but something has to be said of the fact that, in pro- 
portion to its size, it is a city of great facilities and oppor- 
tunities. It has an extraordinary educational equip- 
ment, especially of the higher sort ; its musical and artistic 
advantages are generally recognized, but in nothing is it 
stronger than in the domain of letters. Within the metro- 
politan scope of the city, there are probably two million 
and a half books available in a more or less public way 
to any one whose search is a serious one. This is the 
practical side of the situation, and it is well understood 
by those who come here, as many do, to read and study. 
Tradition and " atmosphere " also play their part. 
Whether by accident or by a normal social and intellec- 
tual development, Boston at one time drew to itself from 
without and produced from its own resources a remark- 
able group of literary men and women, who would have 
given distinction to any civilized centre. While it is true 
that this golden age has passed, much of its unforgettable 
renown still exists. In no provincial spirit this part of 
the country is proud of the memory of these unusual in- 
telligences, and the rest of the country is not ungenerous 



ii INTRODUCTION 

in paying tribute to their wortli. All that once pertained 
to their daily lives and habits is of vital interest to-day. 

It has seemed desirable, therefore, to indicate in com- 
pact form the local habitations and the names of the 
men and women who have helped, or who are now help- 
ing, through their profession of letters, to make the city 
of their birth or adoption more memorable. Some of 
the names are so famous as in a measure to obscure the 
modest reputation of the rest, yet it is proper to make 
no discriminations, and to furnish a practicable index to 
the literary homes, as such, of Boston and its vicinity. 
For a more extended or critical description of the haunts 
of celebrities, reference should be had to books which 
treat the subject in another fashion. 

Parts of Boston are still old and full of flavor, but as has 
been suggested, a great deal, once charming and notable, 
has been swept away by the growth of population and of 
commerce. The North End and the monuments of the 
few literary worthies once centred there have almost com- 
pletely disappeared, while changes, culminating in the 
Great Fire of 1872, wiped out or occasioned the demo- 
lition of whole sections once inhabited by the choicest 
names in Boston's social and literary history. This ex- 
planation is necessary to account for the absence of many 
important persons naturally to be looked for in a guide- 
book of this sort. No mention is made of any one unless 
there exists some building identified with his life. This 
will explain the apparent omission of some important 
landmarks, as for mstance the supposed site of Benjamin 
Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street. The publishers 
and the compiler are aware that in this, the first attempt 
of just this kind, omissions and positive errors must 
be discovered. The renumbering of some of the older 
streets has been a serious obstacle to accuracy. Criticism 
and suggestion will be heartily welcome. 

The arrangement is self-explanatory for the most part, 
first by districts, then by streets : but in less thickly settled 



INTRODUCTION iii 

sections this has not always been necessary. The dates 
in parentheses usually following a name indicate the birth 
and death of a person. The period of residence in a par- 
ticular house is briefly mentioned. The principal infor- 
mation regarding a person who has lived in more than 
one house is entered under the most important or inter- 
esting place of residence. 

Sweeping as has been the demolition of earlier residen- 
tial Boston, the last earthly homes of many notable men 
are still to be found in the ancient burying-grounds, and 
in particular, the Granary, the King's Chapel, and the 
Copp's Hill. In these spots, quiet in spite of the turmoil 
about them, are the houses which the First Clown too 
confidently said " last till doomsday." Such memorials 
do not fairly come within the compass of this work. 

All roads lead to Rome, except in Boston, where they 
lead to, or certainly from, Park Street Church, the conven- 
ient centre of the city's life. For many years the corner of 
Tremont and Park streets has been a rendezvous and a 
point of departure, especially for visiting strangers. 

Before starting, it is germane to our purpose to glance 
at Boston Common, repressing a natural desire to accept 
such a fascinating legend as that, for instance, William 
jPynehon'' s hook, "The Meritorious Price of Christ's Re- 
demption," was burned here by the common hangman in 
165 1 ; but recalling one feature which must not be for- 
gotten, — the " Long Path," which runs from Joy Street 
to Boylston Street, and which is made' immortal in " The 
Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." 

One comment arises, as this little " progress " begins, 
which is obvious indeed, and yet in a way unavoidable. 
The most fruitful part of the journey lies over Beacon 
Hill and through the West End. There are some splen- 
did residences in Boston, and some of the authors here 
enumerated live in them, but he who visits the spots 
made most significant through literary achievement can- 



IV 



INTRODUCTION 




HOME OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT 
BEACON STREET 

not fail to be struck with their extreme simplicity, reserve, 
and even austerity. Almost none of them have that "pa- 
thos of poverty " which Mr. Lowell ascribes to some of 
the older buildings of Harvard College, and none at all 
an outward extravagance or display. It was said of 
Wendell Phillips that in his dress, which was unnotice- 
ably fine, he was always one step behind the latest fash- 
ion. So of these houses ; they observe the Horatian 
balance between extremes. In Boston there is no better 
example of this well-bred architectural caution than the 
residence of the historian Prescott. 



LITERARY LANDMARKS OF 

BOSTON 

PARK STREET 

Park Street Church, important strategic point as it is 
in Boston's topography, is without especial significance 
in this tour, unless we are pleased to remember that Dr. 
Edward Everett Hale, half skeptically, Hkes to think that 
as a boy, one " Independence Day," he heard from the 
gallery in this edifice the singing of America for the first 
time. Here, too, Joseph Cook, nearly thirty years ago, 
began to attract a gathering which presently became a 
multitude (so great as soon to fill Tremont Temple), 
eager to hear this stalwart apologist of conservative 
orthodoxy meet the oncoming tide of German and Eng- 
lish philosophic and scientific thought. His books were 
once as popular as his "Monday Lectures." Cook was 
to orthodox what Theodore Parker had been, twenty 
years earlier, in Music Hall, to radical Boston. A few 
years before Mr. Cook, Park Street Church had been 
filled to overflowing by the Rev. William Henry Harrison 
Murray, who, young, vigorous, and eloquent, also in 
his own manner espoused the straight way of Congre- 
gationalism. The charms of outdoor life, of the gun, the 
rod, the pacer, found a place in Murray's muscular Chris- 
tianity, and his books were popular in their day. (" Ad- 
ventures in the Wilderness," " The Perfect Horse," "Adi- 
rondack Tales.") 

No. 2. John Lothrop Motley. This was the historian's last 
Boston home (1868-1869) before he went as United States Minis- 
ter to England, where he died (1877). See also Chestnut and Wal- 
nut streets, and Boylston Place. 



2 PARK STREET 

No. 4. Josiah Quincy (1S02-1SS2), the son of President Quincy, 
and mayor of Boston. {" Figures of the Past.") Houghton, Mifflin 
& Co» have been here since 1880. This long-established house 
enjoys the distinction of being the sole authorized publishers of the 
works of the most erninent American authors, including Emerson, 




PARK STREET 



Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Thoreau, 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Fiske* By its succession to the 
earlier houses of Ticknor & Fields, and Hurd & Houghton, it al- 
lied its business interests with the reputations of that brilliant 
assemblage of genius which first gave our native literature solid- 
arity and power. The office of the " Atlantic Monthly " is also at 
No. 4. 

No. 5. Josiah Quincy (i 772-1864), the elder, and the President 
of Harvard University (1829-1845), made this his winter home dur- 
ing the last seven years of his life. (" History of Harvard Univer- 
sity ; " " History of the Boston Athenaeum ; " " Municipal History of 
Boston.") 

No. 8. The Union Club, numbering among its members some 
of the most distinguished names in Boston's literary annals, now 
occupies the former home of Abbott Lawrence. 

No. 9. George Ticknor (1791-1871). Here Ticknor, who with 



BEACON STREET 3 

Edward Everett was among the earliest of "traveled" and culti- 
vated Americans, wrote his " History of Spanish Literature," from 
materials collected in his own library, which on his death went to 
the Public Library. The house is sadly changed from its early im- 
pressiveness and beauty, yet it is still a worthy monument. Lafay- 
ette stayed here in 1824, and here, in one part or another of this 
fourfold structure, once lived Christopher Gore, when governor. 
Malbone, the miniaturist, Samuel Dexter, the eminent lawyer, and 
from here was buried Fisher Ames^ the Federalist orator. A 
famous house indeed ! 



BEACON STREET 

The charms of Beacon Street explain themselves very 
well. At no point is it more inviting than at Joy or Wal- 
nut Street, where one may get the beauty of the Common, 
and the gentle curve to the foot of the hill beyond Charles 
Street, where it begins to lengthen out on its course to 
the Brookline Hills beyond. The sense of nearness to 
such homes as Prescott's and Motley's does not diminish 
one's satisfaction. 

No. 3 1-2. Alexander Young (1836-1 891). From 1879 to 1889. 
Journalist and author. (" History of the Netherlands ; " " Young 
Folks' History of the Netherlands.") Lived, earlier, at No. 5 1-2. 

No. 10 1-2. The Boston Athenaeum (established in 1807). The 
father of R. W. Emerson was one of its founders. It is a proprie- 
tary library, and contains over 200,000 volumes. The exterior is 
one of the most dignified and impressive in Boston, but the in- 
terior is now sadly crowded. Librarian, Charles K. Bolton (see 
Brookline). 

No. 28. Joseph Cook (1838-1901). Clergyman, lecturer, and 
author. See also Park Street. 

No. 31. Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ). His mother's home, 
where he used to live when in Boston. Lives at Nahant and 
Washington. (Historical biographies of Hamilton, Washington, 
Webster, in the " American Statesmen Series ; " " Story of the 
Revokition ; " etc.) 

No. 49. Edmund Quincy (1808-1877). In the thirties, but his 
home was at " Bankside," in Dedham, where he lived and died, 
"learned in those arts that make a gentleman," to use the words of 
his friend, Lowell. Concerned in all good works as a citizen, es- 



4 BEACON STREET 

pecially as an opponent of slavery, he also wrote several stories. 
His life of his father, Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) (see Park Street), 
is a model for charm and elegance, while his novel, " Wensley," was 
said by Whittier to be the " most readable book of its kind since 
Hawthorne's ' Blithedale Romance.' " 

No. 55. William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859). From 1845 to 
1859. His reputation was established when he came to this house, 
but here he wrote the " History of the Conquest of Peru," and 
" History of the Reign of Philip the Second." No other traces of 
Prescott's home life in Boston are now in existence. He is buried 
under St. Paul's Church, on Tremont Street, 

No. 68. The home of Mrs. S. R. Putnam, the sister of James 
Russell Lowell, who spent some time here after " Elmwood " was 
let, certainly the winter of 1888- 1889. 

No. 71. Philip Henry Savage (1868-1899). From 189610 1898. 
Son of Rev. Minot J. Savage (see St. Botolph Street), and a minor 
poet of some note and promise. (" First Poems and Fragments ; " 
" Poems.") 

No. 140. Edith Robinson (1858- ). A novelist. (" A Forced 
Acquaintance ; " " Penhallow Tales ; " "A Loyal Little Maid.") 

No. 14 J. Henry Demarest Lloyd ( 1 847- ). Writer and soci- 
ologist. (" Wealth against Commonwealth ; " " Labor Copartner- 
ship ; " " Newest England.") 

No. J45. Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894). His Boston home 
from 187 1 to 1873. See also Marlborough Street, and Brookline. 

No. J59. Francis Cabot Lowell (1855- ). United States 
District Judge. (" Joan of Arc") 

No.2J2. Mary Elizabeth (McGrath) Blake (1840- ). Since 
1896. A frequent contributor of prose and verse to various maga- 
zines. Once known widely in journalism by her signature, M. E. B. 
(" Youth in Twelve Centuries ; " " Verses along the Way ; " etc.) 

No. 237. Francis Amasa Walker ( 1 840- 1 897 ) . Historian, econ- 
omist, soldier, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno- 
logy for many years and until his death. (" History of the Second 
Army Corps;" " Pohtical Economy;" "The Making of the Na- 
tion ;" etc.) 

No. 239. Henry Williamson Haynes (1831- ). Archaeo- 
logist and ethnologist ; contributor to scientific publications. 

No. 241. JuHa Ward Howe (1 81 9- ). This, Mrs. Howe's 
Boston home, has been often occupied also by her daughter, Maud 
(Howe) Elliott (1855- ), wife of John Elliott, the artist, and by 
her nephew, F. Marion Crawford (1854- ), both of whom have, 
however, lived for some years in the West and abroad respectively. 



BEACON STREET 5 

making occasional visits to Mrs. Howe. (" Margaret Fuller ; " 
" Reminiscences ; " " From Sunset Ridge : Poems Old and New ; " 
etc.) See also Chestnut and Mt. Vernon streets, and Boylston 
Place. 

No. 289. James Frothingham Hunnewell (1832- ). Lived 
formerly in Charlestown ; an accomplished student and historian. 




HOME OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 

BEACON STREET 

(Dr. Holmes in the foreground) 



("The Lands of Scott;" "The Imperial Island: England's Chroni- 
cle in Stone;" "A Century of Town Life.") 

No. 296. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1 809- 1 894). From 187 1 to 
his death. His study was in the rear of the house, on the second 
story, looking over the Charles River to Cambridge and beyond. 
(" Writings," in 13 vols.) This is the permanent residence of his 
son, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841- ), of the United 



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States Supreme Court. (" Speeches ; " and editor of " Kent's Com- 
mentaries.") See also Charles Street. 

No. 302. William Dean Howells (1837- )• From 1885 to 
1887. See also Commonwealth Avenue, Louis burg Square, and 
Cambridge. 

No. 36L Richard Henry Dana, 2d ( 181 5-1882). From 1874 to 
1880. A noted Boston lawyer and writer. (" Two Years before the 
Mast ; " " To Cuba and Back ; " editor of Wheaton's " Elements 
of International Law.") See also Cambridge. 

No. 392. James Ford Rhodes (1848- ). Ohio born and 
reared, Mr. Rhodes has of late years found the atmosphere and 
literary resources of Boston favorable to the prosecution of his 
" History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850." 

No. 423. John Davis Long. From 1875 to 1883- See also Mt. 
Vernon Street. 

No. 502. " The Austerfield." Clara (Erskine) Clement Waters 
(1834- ). A prolific art-writer and a novelist. (" Stories of 
Art and Artists ; " " Saints in Art ; " " Charlotte Cushman ; " 
" Eleanor Maitland : A Novel ; " etc.) 

No. 528. Dr. Harold Williams (1853- ). A physician who 
has written novels, as well as medical essays. (" Silken Threads;" 
" Mr. and Mrs. Morton.") 

No. 535. "The Charlesgate." Anne Whitney. From 1894 to 
1903. See also Mt. Vernon Street. 

No. 811. Louis C. Elson (1848- ). Musical critic, lecturer, 
journalist, and writer. (" National Music of America ; " " Curi- 
osities of Music ; " " Shakespeare in Music ; " etc.) Here also is 
Arthur Elson. (" Critical History of Opera ; " " Orchestral Instru- 
ments and their Use.") 



WALNUT STREET 

No. 1. Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) was born and lived long in 
this, the first brick house built on Beacon Street. The entrance used 
to be on Beacon Street. As in the case of Sumner, some of Phillips's 
oratory has lived to take its rank in literature. (" The Constitu- 
tion a Pro-Slavery Contract ; " " The Scholar in a Republic ; " 
'' Speeches, Lectures and Letters;" etc.) See also Common Street. 

No. 2. Charles C. Perkins (i 823-1 886). An art critic and writer 
of note. (" Raphael and Michael Angelo ; " " Tuscan Sculptors.") 

No. 7 (probably now No. 8). John Lothrop Motley (181 4-1877). 
The childhood home of this eminent historian and diplomat ; and in 



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its garret Motley, Thomas Gold Appleton (see Beacon Street), and 
Wendell Phillips (see above), the closest friends when boys, used 
to play together. (" The Rise of the Dutch Republic ; " " The His- 
tory of the United Netherlands ; " " Life and Death of John of Bar- 
neveld;" etc.) See also Chestnut and Park streets, and Boylston 
Place. 

No. 8» Francis Parkman(iS23-iS93). From 1856 to 1864. Park- 
man is more closely identified with his house on Chestnut Street. 

No. JO. Robert Charles Winthrop^ Jr. ("A Memoir of Robert 
C. Winthrop.") 

CHESTNUT STREET 

Parallel with Beacon Street, and halfway between it 
and Mt. Vernon Street, runs Chestnut Street from Wal- 
nut Street, which cuts across its upper end, down across 
Charles Street, to the river. Lacking some of the rare 
personal distinction of Mt. Vernon Street, and quite with- 
out the air of a chastened Bohemia peculiar to Pinckney 
Street, Chestnut Street has charming qualities of its own, 
as well as memories, social and literary, too choice to be 
forgotten. The numbers run down the hill, as is usual 
on the west side of Beacon Hill. 

No. 8. George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898) formerly lived 
here. (" A Study of Hawthorne ; " " Spanish Vistas ; " etc. Verses 
and fiction.) Also Rose (Hawthorne) Lathrop (1851- ), his wife, 
and daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (" Some Memories of 
Hawthorne;" "Along the Shore," verse.) 

No. n. John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877). About 1848 to 
1 85 1. See also Park and Walnut streets, and Boylston Place. 

No. 12. Charles Gordon Ames (1828- ). Successor of Rev. 
James Freeman Clarke at the Church of the Disciples. (" George 
Eliot's Two Marriages; " " Studies of the Inner Kingdom.") 

No. J 3. Mrs. John T. Sargent. (" Sketches and Reminiscences 
of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street.") The Radical Club 
began in 1867, and met at Mrs. Sargent's home. Among the mem- 
bers and lecturers were Emerson. Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, 
Sr., W. H. Channing, F. B. Sanborn, T. W. Higginson, C. A. 
Bartol, F. H. Hedge, and Samuel Longfellow. Its complexion was 
liberal Unitarianism, but the Radical Club was to Boston a genera- 



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CHESTNUT STREET 



tion ago what the so-called Transcendental Club was in the thir- 
ties. Here lived previously (1863- 1865) Mrs, Julia Ward Howe 
(see also Beacon and Mt. Vernon streets, and Boylston Place). 

No, 17. Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813-1900). Unitarian clergy- 
man, and one of the longest lived of the early transcendentalists. 
The West Church on Cambridge, corner of Lynde Street, where 
he long preached, is now a branch of the Public Library, and an 
interesting building. Here, too, preached Charles Lowell, the fa- 
ther of the poet Lowell. (" Pictures of Europe ; " " Radical Prob- 
lems ; " " Principles and Portraits.") 

No, 24. Helen Choate (Pratt) Prince {1857- )• A grand 
daughter of Rufus Choate. Lives now in France. ('' At the Sign 
of the Silver Crescent;" "The Strongest Master;" "A Transat- 
lantic Chatelaine.") 

No. 29. Edwin Booth (i 833-1 S93). This interesting house, 




HOME OF FRANCIS PARKMAN 
CHESTNUT STREET 



with its " sun-purpled window-panes," was once the home of Booth, 
who is entitled to consideration in literature through his scholarly 
adaptation, for his own stage, of many of Shakespeare's plays. The 
house is now occupied by the Hopkinson Classical School. 



CHESTNUT STREET 9 

No. 33. John Gorham Palfrey (1796-188 1 ). Lived here during 
1861 while Postmaster of Boston, 1861-1867, then at 5 Louisburg 
Square. See also Cambridge. 

No. 43. Richard Henry Dana (i 787-1879). A founder of the 
" North American Review," one of the early poets and critics of 
American national literature, and a lecturer on Shakespeare. For- 
merly lived at No. 37. (" The Buccaneer, and other Poems ; " " The 
Idle Man;" "Poems and Prose Writings.") 

No. 50. Francis Parkman (i 823-1 893). The home of this emi- 
nent historian for nearly thirty years. (" France and England in 
North America," in 9 vols. ; " The Oregon Trail," etc.) See also 
Walnut Street. 

No. 55. Nathaniel Greene (i 797-1877). Journalist and editor. 
Also translator from the German and Italian. 

No. 62. Arlo Bates (1850- ). To 1902. Mr. Bates, besides 
filling the Professorship of English Literature at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology (491 Boylston Street), is a poet, and, 
now that Mr. Howells has gone away, the resident novelist of 
Boston life, especially of its artistic and Bohemian side. Now lives 
on Otis Place. ( '• The Philistines ; " " The Puritans ; " " Diary of a 
Saint;" etc.) His wife, Harriet Leonora (Vose) Bates (1856-1886), 
under the name of " Eleanor Putnam," was also an author. 

No. 96. Alice Brown (1857- ). Miss Brown, who has of late 
migrated from Pinckney Street to her present address, is one of an 
accomplished group of women who have interpreted with rare deli- 
cacy the spirit of New England, and in particular its perplexing 
" conscience." (" By Oak and Thorn ; " "Meadow Grass ; " " Mar- 
garet Warrener;" "The Mannerings.") 

No. 104. Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840- 1890). This Eng- 
lish author and Unitarian preacher, during his stay in Boston, wrote 
verse of considerable merit. (" Liber Amoris ; " "A Poet's Lost 
Songs.") This house is now a part of Mr. D. B. Updike's Merry 
mount Press. 



MT. VERNON STREET 

This street runs from the State House down the hill to 
the river. Though lacking uniformity to a degree re- 
markable even in a Boston street, it has, especially from 
Joy Street to Louisburg Square, a peculiar charm, for it 
is English enough to be a part of London, and has an 



lo MT. VERNON STREET 

individual native dignity worthy even of Salem. It is no 
wonder that it has had in the past, and still has, a fascina- 
tion for men and women of letters. v 



No. 26. Curtis Guild, Sr. (I S28- ). Journalist, editor, writer. 
(" Over the Ocean ; " " Abroad Again ; " " Britons and Muscovites ; " 
"A Chat about Celebrities.") 

No. 32. Julia "Ward Howe. From 1870 to 1872. See also 
Beacon and Chestnut streets, and Boylston Place. 

No. 41. " The Otis." Eliza H. (Mrs. Harrison Gray) Otis (1796- 
1873). A famous philanthropist and social leader. (" The Barclays 
of Boston.") 

No. 57. Charles Francis Adams {1S07-1886). Son of one 
President of the United States and grandson of another, he himself 
was Minister to England during the critical period of the Civil War. 
(As Editor : " The Life and Works of John Adams ; " " Life and 
Works of John Quincy Adams ; " " Letters of Mrs. Abigail 
Adams ; " etc.) 

No. 59. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1837- ). Since 1884. 
Poet and novelist. (" Prudence Palfrey ; " " The Stillwater Tra- 
gedy;" " Marjorie Daw' ; " " The Story of a Bad Boy ; " and other 
works ; " Writings," in 8 vols., 1897.) See also Charles and Finckney 
streets. Here also Hved, earlier, Adam Wallace Thaxter (1832- 
1864). A Boston dramatist and dramatic and literary critic. (Among 
his plays are "The Sculptor ; " " Olympia; " " Mary Tudor; " also 
" The Grotto Nymph," a poem.) 

No. 63. This house, for many years the residence of William 
Claflin, a governor of Massachusetts, gets much of its literary at- 
mosphere from the fact th-at the poet Whittier used to stay here on 
his visits to Boston. Mary Bucklin (Davenport) Claflin ( 1 825-1896), 
wife of Governor Claflin, was herself a writer. (" Personal Recollec- 
tions of Whittier ; " " Brampton Sketches ; " " Real Happenings.") 

No. 67. Cornelia Warren (1857- ). Till 1902. Philanthropist, 
business woman, and writer. (" Miss Wilton.") 

No. 76. Margaret Wade (Campbell) Deland (1857- ). Nov- 
elist and poet. Mrs. Deland becamefamous on the publication of 
" John Ward, Preacher." (" The Old Garden and Other Verses ; " 
" Sidney ; " " Philip and His Wife ; " " Old Chester Tales ; " etc.) 
Now on Newbury Street. 

No. 79. John Davis Long (1838- ). During 1896 and 1897. 
Governor of Massachusetts, and Secretary of the Navy. This 
was previously the home of Judge Horace Gray. (Translation of 



MT VERNON STREET 



II 




HOMES OF THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 

AND CHARLES FRANCLS ADAMS 

MT. VERNON STREET 



Virgil's " ^neid ; " " After Dinner and other Speeches.") See also 
Beacon Street. 

No. 83. William EUery Channing (i 780-1842). The leader of 
American Unitarianism, and one of the foremost theologians of his 
time. He died in this house, which his widow and Dr. William 
Francis Channing, one of his gifted sons and the inventor of the 
electric fire-alarm telegraph, occupied for some time afterward. Also 
lived, earlier, in old Nos. 49 and 61. {" Evidences of Revealed Re- 
ligion ; " " Self -Culture ; " " Essay on Milton ; " etc.) 

No. 88. Mrs. Adeline D. T. Whitney {1824- ). The daugh- 
ter of Colonel Enoch Train. Lived here until her marriage, about 
1845. ^^^ cousin, George Francis Train, widely known as an 



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eccentric lecturer and writer, also lived in this house. She has lived 
in Milton for many years. 

No. 92» Anne Whitney (1 82 1- ). From 1877 to 1893. Poet 
and sculptor. (" Poems.") Now at 535 Beacon Street. 

No. 99. John Codman Ropes ( 1 836-1 899). A lawyer and a bril- 
liant military historian. This house was his home for the greater 
part of his life, and here he died. (" The Campaign of Waterloo ; " 
"The First Napoleon ; " " The Story of the Civil War.") John T. 
Wheelwright (1856- ) has lived here since 1900. A brilliant 
but infrequent writer. (" Rollo's Journey to Cambridge [in part] ; " 
" A Child of the Century ; " "A Bad Penny.") 

No. n2. Margaret Wade Deland. From 1888 to 1894. See 
No. 76. 

No. JH. M.A.DeWolfeHowe(i864- .) Since 1901. One 
of the younger literary men of Boston. ("American Bookmen;" 
" Phillips Brooks; " Editor of " The Beacon Biographies.") 



LOUISBURG SQUARE 

Running from Mt. Vernon to Pinckney Street, this re- 
tired spot is the quintessence of the older Boston. With- 
out positive beauty, its dignity and repose save it from 
any suggestion of ugliness. Here once bubbled up, it is 
fondly believed, in the centre of the iron-railed inclosure, 
that spring of water with which First Settler William 
Blackstone helped to coax Winthrop and his followers over 
the river from Charlestown. There is no monument to 
Blackstone here or anywhere, but in this significant spot 
stand two statues, one to Columbus and one to Aristides 
the Just, both of Italian make, and presented to the city 
by a Greek merchant of Boston ! 

No. 4. William Dean Howells (1837- ). About 1884. 
See also Beacon Street, Commonwealth Avenue, and Cambridge. 

No. 5. John Gorham Palfrey. From 1862 to 1867. See also 
Chestnut Street, and Cambridge. 

No. JO. Louisa May Alcott. Her Boston home from 1885 till 
her death in 1888, though she died in Roxbury. Her father, A. 
Bronson Alcott, died here after making it in part his home for 
several years. See also Pinckney Street, and Concord. 



PINCKNEY STREET 



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PINCKNEY STREET 

Much of the spirit of what Philip Gilbert Hamerton 
used to call the Noble Bohemianism has been realized by 
Pinckney Street. In some respects it is the most inter- 
esting thoroughfare in Boston, running as it does from 




HOMES OF WILLIAN DEAN HOWELLS 

AND LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 

LOUISBURG SQUARE 

Joy Street to the river, down the western ridge of Beacon 
Hill, and dividing the more prosperous and elegant quar- 
ters to the south and east from the less prosperous and 
occasionally squalid section which slopes off steeply to 
Cambridge Street. To Pinckney Street has been given 
neither poverty nor riches, but it maintains an air of en- 
tire self-respect and even complacency, for here, as the 
following names will show, have lived people who have 
given it dignity, and made its quaint individuality yet 
more memorable. 



14 PINCKNEY STREET 

No. 4. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879). One of the most famous 
of the early nineteenth century educators and writers of New Eng- 
land. 1831-1832. ("The Rollo Books; "etc.) 

No. 9. Lowell Mason (1792-1872). A famous Boston musi- 
cian, composer, and writer on musical subjects. About 1841. 
(" Musical Letters from Abroad ; " etc.) See also Myrtle Street. 

No. U. Edwin P. Whipple (1819-1886). A critical writer of 
great power and clearness. His residence here, where his widow 
still lives, covers his literary career. {" Essays and Reviews ; " 
" Literature and Life ; " " Character and Characteristic Men.") 

No. J3. Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1S95). About 1845; in 
1843 at No. 19. Founder and editor of several reviews and a pro- 
lific writer of books of travel. (" History of Cuba; " " Due West ; " 
etc.) See also Boylston and Charles streets. 

No. 16. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861- ). Poet, essayist, 
novelist, and editor. Now in Oxford, England. (" Goose-Quill 
Papers ; " " Patrins ; " " Songs at the Start ; " etc.) Here lives now 
Edwin Munroe Bacon (1844- ). Journalist, editor, author, 
antiquarian. A connoisseur of New England, historical and literary. 
(" Walks and Rides about Boston ; " " Historic Pilgrimages in 
New England;" etc.) See also West Cedar Street. 

No. 20. Louisa May Alcott (1S32-1888), daughter of A. Bron- 
son Alcott (see Concord). Here the Alcotts lived after 1854 for 
several years. Miss Alcott's enduring fame is based on a real, if not 
a purely literaiy, merit. (Among her works are " Little Women ; " 
" Little Men ; " " An Old-Fashioned Girl ; " " Hospital Sketches.") 
See also No. 81, Louisburg Square, and Concord. Mr. Alcott^s fa- 
mous school was in the top story of the old Masonic Temple, subse- 
quently raised and remodeled into the dry goods store of R. H. 
Stearns & Co., corner of Tremont Street and Temple Place. 

No. 21. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804- 1 894). Sister-in-law 
of Hawthorne, and an early educator and introducer of kindergarten 
methods. Kept a kindergarten here in 1862 and 1863. (" ^Esthetic 
Papers; " " Record of a School [Alcott's].") 

No. 30. Edwin Doak Mead (1849- ). Up to a short time 
ago. Writer, lecturer, and editor (of the "New England Maga- 
zine"). ("Martin Luther;" "The Philosophy of Carlyle;" etc.) 
Also his wife, Lucia True (Ames) Mead (1856- ). ("Great 
Thoughts fbr Little Thinkers; " "Memoirs of a Millionaire ;" etc.) 

No. 54. George Stillman HiUard (1808-1879). Until 1848. A 
Boston lawyer, educator, orator, and scholar of elegance and taste. 
One of the intimate friends of Hawthorne^ who frequented this house 
much at one time. (" Memoir of Jeremiah Mason ; " " Life of 



WEST CEDAR STREET 15 

George Ticknor [with Mrs. Ticknor] ; " " Six Months in Italy.") 
His " Readers " had a great vogue for many years, and were an im- 
portant formative influence in American education. From 1S4S to 
1879 at No. 62. He died at Longwood, in BrookHne. 

No. 66* John Sullivan Dwight (1S13-1S93). Musical critic, 
editor, writer. After leaving Brook Farm, where he spent five 
years, Mr. Dwight lived in this house (1849-1852), with his friend 
Mrs. Anna Q. Parsons and her daughters. Here he was married 
(185 1 ) to Miss Bullard. Afterward he moved to Charles Street. 
See also Park Square, and West Cedar Street. 

No. 67. Alice Brown (1857- ). See Chestnut Street. 

No. 78. Zitella Cocke (1847- ). A writer of verse and chil- 
dren's stories. ("A Doric Reed.") 

No. 81. Louisa May Alcott. From 18S0 for several years. 
See No. 20 ; also Louisburg Square and Concord. 

No. 84. ThomasBailey Aldrich (1837- ). Here was written 
the famous " Story of a Bad Boy." See also Charles and Mt Ver- 
non streets. 

No. 91. Benjamin Franklin Stevens (1824- ). Not to be 
confounded with the bibliographer of the same name, who died in 
London in 190 1. A literary amateur of no uncertain merit, chiefly 
known by a series of historical pamphlets. 

No. 98. Celia (Laighton) Thaxter (1S35-1S94). Although this 
poet's childhood and much of her later life were passed in the Isles 
of Shoals, here she spent several winters when in Boston. {" Drift- 
wood ; " " Idyls and Pastorals ; " " Poems ; " " An Island Garden.") 



WEST CEDAR STREET 

One of the minor, yet still quaint streets of the West 
End. Its range of interests, social or historical, does not 
now extend to the north much beyond its junction with 
Pinckney Street, just about where stood the house of the 
first white man (Blackstone) in Boston. 

No. J. John Sullivan Dwight. As Secretary of the Harvard 
Musical Association, Mr. Dwight moved here with it (1892), and 
lived here up to his death (1893) in this present home of the 
Association. See also Pinckney Street, and Park Square. 

No. 3. George (1803-1885) and Adeline Treadwell (Parsons) 
Lunt. In the eighties. Mr. Lunt, who was a figure of some literary 
importance in his day, wrote among other works : " The Age of 



i6 ASHBURTON PLACE, HANCOCK ST., ETC. 

Gold, and Other Poems," " Sonnets and Miscellanies ; " " Three 
Eras of New England." The fine touch of Mrs. Lunt in lyric 
verse is not yet forgotten. Here also with his sister and brother- 
in-law dwelt for a time Dr. T, W* Parsons (see Winter Street). 
Henry Childs Mcrwin (1S53- ) is the present occupant of this 
interesting house. A lawyer by profession, he is also the author 
of some historical biography and magazine writing of notable fine- 
ness and quality. (" Aaron Burr ; " " Thomas Jefferson ; " " Road, 
Track, and Stable.") 

No. n. Percival Lowell (1855- ). Brother of Abbott Law- 
rence Lowell (see Marlborough Street). Writer, traveler, and astro- 
nomer. (" The Soul of the Far East ; " " Occult Japan ; " " Mars.") 

No. 25. Edwin Mtinroe Bacon. For nearly twenty years he 
lived here while editor of the " Boston Post," and here he harbored 
his friend " Taverner," that blend of many fine personalities, at 
whose passing disappeared a certain mellow and personal note in 
Boston journalism. See also Pinckney Street. 

No. 41. Abbie Farwell Brown (187- ). A new writer of clever 
books for children. (" The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts ; " 
" In the Days of Giants; " " The Lonesomest Doll.") 

ASHBURTON PLACE, HANCOCK STREET, JOY 
STREET, MYRTLE STREET 

No. 3 Ashburton Place. Here Mrs. Rebecca Parker Clarke, widow 
of Dr. Samuel and mother of James Freeman Clarke, kept a board- 
ing-house in the thirties. Among her boarders were Jared Sparks 
(see Cambridge), Horace Mann, and the three daughters of Dr. 
Nathaniel Peabody (see also West Street and Salem), Elizabeth, 
Mary, who afterwards married Horace Mann, and Sophia, who be- 
came the wife of Hawthorne. 

No. 13 Ashburton Place. Henry James (181 1-1882), and Henry 
James, Jr. (1843- ). From 1865 to 1866. Then to Cambridge. 

No. 20 Hancock Street. Charles Sumner (181 1-1874). The suc- 
cessor of Daniel Webster in the United States Senate, and the 
most potent voice from Massachusetts in national legislation 
against the extension or existence of slavery. Some of his 
speeches and orations have become a part of American literature. 
There is a memorial tablet on the house. (" The True Grandeur 
of Nations;" "Prophetic Voices concerning America;" "Com- 
plete Works," in i 5 vols.) 

No. 24 Hancock Street. Colonel Samuel Swett ( 1 7 8 2- 1 8 66). A 
prominent citizen of Boston, and a well-known topographical engi- 



CHARLES STREET 17 

neer. He was versed in military history and strategy, and wrote 
occasional poems. (" History and Topographical Sketch of Bunker 
Hill; " " Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?") 

No. 3 Joy Street* Charlotte Porter (1859- ) and Helen A. 
Clarke, the founders and editors of " Poet-Lore." Besides making the 
first English translation of Maeterlinck, they have edited the Works 
of Mr. and Mrs. Browning. Now at Riverbank Court, Cambridge. 

No. 9 Myrtle Street. Lowell Mason (1792- 1872). In 1835. See 
also Pinckney Street. 

No. 24 Myrtle Street. Rev. Hosea Ballou (i 796-1861). From 
1837 to 1846. The father of M. M. Ballou, and first President of 
Tufts College. (" Ancient History of Universalism.") 



CHARLES STREET 

The residential part of Charles Street which concerns 
the visitor extends from Beacon Street to Cambridge 
Street. It is without striking or attractive features, yet 
at one time it was the abode of several Boston worthies 
memorable in literature. Though passing into that unin- 
viting senescence where the boarding-house predominates 
over the home, it still has the flavor of the West End. 

No. 76. Maturin Murray Ballou. In 1879 and following years 
this incessant traveler lived here. See Boylston and Pinckney 
streets. 

No. 82. Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829- ). Son, grandson, 
and great-grandson respectively of the three Josiahs of the Quincy 
family. Unlike his three immediate ancestors he has not confined 
himself to history, politics, and biography, but, more like his distin- 
guished uncle, Edmund Quincy (see Beacon Street), has wandered 
into the field of the imagination. (" Charicles, a Drama ; " " Ly- 
teria, a Dramatic Poem ; " " The Peckster Professorship.") 

No. J27. Lucretia Hale (1820-1900), the sister of Edward 
Everett Hale (see Plighland Street, Roxbury). She is, perhaps, 
best known by her humorous juveniles. (" The Peterkin Papers; " 
" The Last of the Peterkins ; " " The New Harry and Lucy.") 

No. J3L Thomas Bailey Aldrich. From 1871 to 1881. The 
house is identified with some of his important work. See also Mt. 
Vernon and Pinckney streets. 

No. J48. James T. (1817-1881) and Mrs. Annie (Adams) Fields 



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CHARLES STREET 



(1834- .) Mr. Fields, as publisher, lecturer, editor, and critic, 
had both ability and bonhomie, and as a litterateur was of no little 
importance. His literary friendships were close and unusual. 
(" Underbrush," a series of sketches ; " Ballads, and Other 
Verses ; " and " Yesterdays with Authors.") Mrs. Fields has written, 
beside two volumes of verse, the " Life and Letters of Harriet 
Beecher Stowe ; " " Authors and Friends ; " " Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne ; " " Orpheus, A Masque." She still resides in this their old 
home, in the rear of which is a charming city garden. Sarah Orne 
Jcwett (1849- ) may also be said to live here, inasmuch as she is 
the most intimate friend of Mrs. Fields, and has for many years 
passed the winter months with her. A subtle interpretation of New 
England on the subjective side is Miss Jewett's literary forte. (" A 





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CHARLES STREET 



Marsh Island;" "A Country Doctor;" "The Country of the 
Pointed Firs ; " " Deephaven.") 

No. J 50. Lucy White Jennison (1850- ), who is better known 
under her pseudonym of " Owen Innsley," used to live in this house. 
Now lives mainly abroad. (" Love Poems and Sonnets.") 

No. J 64, Oliver Wendell Holmes. From 1859 to 1871. He wrote 



BRIMMER STREET AND OTIS PLACE 19 

in this house " The Professor at the Breakfast-Table ; " " The Guard- 
ian Angel ; " " Elsie Venner ; " and his famous poem, " Dorothy Q." 
Here too he wrote " My Hunt after ' The Captain,' " a description of 
his search during the Civil War for young Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
See also Beacon Street. 



BRIMMER STREET 

No, 6. William Rounseville Alger (1822- ). Lecturer and 
religious writer of unusual force and courage. (" The Destiny of 
the Soul ; " " Poetry of the Orient ; " " Life of Edwin Forrest ; " etc.) 
Also Abby Langdon Alger^ his daughter, a translator of reputation 
and interested in folk-lore. (" In Indian Tents. Stories told by 
Indians.") 

No, 25. Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1S89). Minister of the 
venerable King's Chapel from 1S61 to his death, and its accom- 
plished historian. ("Annals of King's Chapel.") A brother of 
Arthur Foote, the musician and composer. 

No. 44. Samuel Eliot (1821-1898). Author, editor, educator, 
and orator. At one time President of Trinity College. ("History 
of Liberty;" "Manual of United States History;" "Poetry for 
Children ; " etc.) 

OTIS PLACE 

No. I. Adams Sherman Hill (1833- ). Prof essor of Rhetoric 
at Harvard College. (" Our English ; " " The Principles of Rhet- 
oric ; " " The Foundations of Rhetoric ; " etc.) 

No. 4. Arlo Bates. Since 1902. See Chestnut Street. 

No. 14. WilliamFoster Apthorp (1848- ). Musical critic and 
writer, and occasional translator. Long known for his explanations 
in the programmes of the Boston Symphony Concerts. (" Musicians 
and Music-Lovers, and Other Essays ; " " By the Way ; Short Es- 
says on Music and Art," 2 vols. ; etc.) 



THE NORTH END 

This ancient part of tlie city is well worth a long ram- 
ble, not only for certain important historical landmarks, 
but for impressions of several interesting quarters where 
live al fresco fashion, but enterprising and industrious, 



20 THE NORTH END 

various nationalities, particularly Italians, Portuguese, 
and Hebrews. Only a few spots remain which illustrate 
our specific purpose. 

Though leaving the visitor to ancient cemeteries largely to his 
own devices, it is impossible not to call attention to the fact that in 
the Copp^s Hill Burying-Groundt reached by going up Hull Street, 
which leads directly to it from the old Christ Church on Salem 
Street, is the tomb, one among many of exceeding interest, which 
contains the remains of Increase ( 1639-1 723), Cotton (1663-17 28), 
and Samuel (i 706-1 785) Mather. We may not even hint at an 
enumeration of the nearly five hundred published works of the first 
two of these worthies. But, not without learning, force, and influ- 
ence in their day, these sober productions are all forgotten, save 
only Cotton Mather's " Magnalia." 

On the west side of Hanover, near North Bennet Street, is stand- 
ing a part of the house built by Increase Mather in 1677, and his 
home till 1723. After Mather, the Eliots, Andrew (i 718-1778) 
and John (1754-1813) his son, both ministers of the New North 
Church, lived here. They both printed sermons, and Dr. John 
Eliot compiled a " Biographical Dictionary." 

On the northeast corner of Union and Marshall streets, built 
about the middle of the eighteenth century, is a building where was 
once the shop of one Hopestill Capen. To him was apprenticed 
in 1769 Benjamin Thompson^ later Count Rumford, after a three 
years' service in Salem. See also Salem. 



WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 

FROM BOWDOIN SQUARE TO COMMON STREET 

Through the central part of the city, starting from the 
foot of the northern side of Beacon Hill and turning 
gradually east and south, we come across a number of the 
older literary houses that, as in the South End, cannot 
well be grouped by streets. 

No. 34 Cambridge Street. In the sixties, Harriet Prescott Spof- 
ford. 1 jives in Newburyport. 

No. 42 Green Street^ near Bowdoin Square. Harriet Beecher 

Stowe (181 1-1896). From 1826 to 1832, twenty years before she 



WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 



21 



wrote" Uncle Tom's Cabin," and some seven before her marriage, 
(" Dred ; " " Oldtown Folks ; " " The Pearl of Orr's Island ; " etc.) 

The ** Old Corner Bookstore ** (corner Washington and School 
streets) is a landmark almost as historical as it is literary, now 
doomed to speedy destruction. It is the oldest brick building in 




THE OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE 
CORNER OF SCHOOL AND WASHINGTON STREETS 



Boston. Built in 1 712, it stands on the site where Anne Hutchinson 
(1591-1643) held her famous meetings, for the liberalism of which 
she was driven from the Colony. So long has this building been 
put to its present use that its title has been for years a familiar 
Bosto'n byword. Beginning with 1828, the front was used as a book- 
shop by Carter & Hendee. They were succeeded by the following 
book-firms : Allen & Ticknor, William D. Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor 
& Co., Ticknor & Fields, E. P. Button & Co., A. W^illiams & Co., 
Cupples, Upham & Co., and Damrell & Upham. From this famous 
corner developed the present firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (see 
Park Street), and the now extinct firm of Roberts Bros. Early in 
the last century, however, it was the home and shop of Dr. Samuel 
Clarke, the father of James Freeman Clarke (see Ashburton Place). 
Twenty years after the time of EHzabeth Peabody's Foreign Book- 
store (see West Street), the "Old Corner" could be said to have 



22 WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 

inherited its power of literary attraction as a place of congregation 
for the eminent men of the day. 

Old South Church (corner Milk and Washington streets) In 
the belfry of this historic church was kept, until 1866, the Prince 
Library, now held in trust by the Boston Public Library. John 
Adams was a frequenter of its shelves. Here also Dr. Jeremy 
Belknap (i 744-1798), historian and divine, long had his study, and 
much of his work was done here. (" History of New Hampshire ; " 
" American Biographies ; " " The Foresters : an American Tale.") 

Nos. 16 and 18 Winter Street. From 1831 to 1870, Dr. Thomas 
W. Parsons (181 9-1892), dentist, poet, and translator. His incom- 
plete translation into English verse of Dante's " Divina Commedia " 
ranks high. (" Poems.") See also West Cedar Street. 

No. 13 "West Street. From 1840 until 1S54 the home of Dr. 
Nathaniel Peabody and his three daughters, Elizabeth^ Mary, and 
Sophia (see also Ashburton Place, and Salem). Here Dr. Peabody 
and Elizabeth opened their famous " Foreign Bookstore," and here 
the " Dial " was for a time published. Here too Margaret Fuller (see 
also Cambridge) began her series of Conversations, or "classes," as 
they were called. And in this house were often to be met Allston 
the artist, Emerson, Ripley, Hawthorne, Hedge, and others who 
have helped to broaden American thought and literature. 

No. 31 Hollis Street. The house in which Francis Jackson 
( 1 789-1 861), a prominent reformer, long president of the Anti- 
Slavery Society, and the author of " A History of the Early Settle- 
ment of Newton," entertained Harriet Martineau in 1835. On Hol- 
lis Street, "nearly opposite the church " (now the theatre), was the 
home and school from iSii to 1822 of Susanna (Haswell) Rowson 
(1762-1824), author of the famous "Charlotte Temple." 

No. 12 Burroughs Place, off Hollis Street. From 1845 to 1856 
the home of the Rev. Thomas Starr King (see Charlestown). He 
afterwards lived for a short time at 76 Dover Street. 

No. 72 Harrison Avenue. Samuel Abbott Green (1830- ). 
See Boylston Street, No. 11 54. 

No. 37 Common Street. Wendell Phillips died here in 1884. 
See also Walnut ^Street. 

No. 93 Tyler Street. (" The Denison House," a settlement house.) 
Florence Converse (1871- ), novelist and philanthropist, lived 
here for some time. (" Diana Victrix ; " " The Burden of Christo- 
pher.") Other literary workers have also lived here temporarily, 
among them "Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858- ), the statisti- 
cian, economist, and historian. 



BOYLSTON STREET 23 



BOYLSTON STREET 

With the removal of the PubHc Library from its old 
home opposite the Common to Copley Square, what was 
left of older Boylston Street rapidly changed or disap- 
peared. Following the law of civic growth, this impor- 
tant thoroughfare, half-commercial, half-residential, is 
stretching rapidly westward. Its literary significance is 
relatively small, yet not to be ignored. 

No. 18 Boylston Place is still the home, though perhaps not for 
long, of the ^^ Boston Library/^ which ranks the Athenaeum in point 
of age, having been founded m 1792. It contains over 40,000 vol- 
umes, and has a private membership of some hundred subscribers. 
The Library has occupied these quarters for more than twenty- 
five years. Also a former residence of John Lothrop Motley (see 
also Chestnut, Park, and Walnut streets). No* 19 was from 1866 to 
1870 the home of Julia Ward Howe (see also Beacon, Chestnut, 
and Mt. Vernon streets). 

No. n Park Square. From 1886 to 1892 the rooms of the Har- 
vard Musical Association, and for that period the abode of its presi- 
dent, John Sullivan Dwight. Later the Association moved to West 
Cedar Street. 

Boylston Street, No. 39. Helen Mary Knowlton (1832- ). 
In the early eighties. Artist and writer. A pupil of the artist Hunt. 
Besides some more or less technical works she has written " The 
Art- Life of William Morris Hunt." Later went to Needham, and 
now lives there. 

** The Brunswick.^^ Maturin Murray Ballou (see also Charles and 
Pinckney streets) came here in 1S87, and died eight years later while 
a resident of the house. Two of the present literary occupants are 
James Schouler (1839- ), who is by profession a lawyer; and 
Lilian Whiting (1855- ), who is a journalist, and the author of 
several books. Professor Schouler is best known by his " History 
of the United States under the Constitution ; " while Miss Whiting, 
besides her several '' World Beautiful " books, has written " Kate 
Field: A Record," etc- Her latest work, " Boston Days," is an ap- 
preciation of this city from a personal standpoint. 

Copley Square. The Public Library of the City of Boston was 
founded in 1852, and from 1858 to 1894 was on the site of the Colo- 
nial Theatre (Boylston Street). The present structure, built by the 
architects McKim, Mead & White, was opened to the public in 1895, 



24 BOYLSTON STREET 

and cost $2,368,000. The library system contains nearly 900,000 
volumes, made accessible by a catalogue of about 1,500,000 titles on 
cards, by Monthly Bulletins of recent accessions (given away), by 
an Annual List of about 8000 selected titles (price 5 cents), and by 
numerous special bibliographies. Besides the Central Library there 
are about 120 distributing agencies, including 10 Branches and 21 
Delivery Stations. The yearly home use of books is about 1,500,000. 
A guide to the various departments in the three stories of the 
building, and also satisfactory descriptions of the mural decorations 
by John S. Sargent, R. A., Edwin A. Abbey, R. A., Puvis de Cha- 
vannes, and John Elliott, will be found in Herbert Small's " Hand- 
book " (for sale at the Library). Librarian, Horace G. Wadlin. 

No, 423. Kate Gannett Wells. To 1892. See also Common- 
wealth Avenue. 

No. 645. George Angier Gordon (1853- ). A prominent 
Congregational clergyman, of Scotch birth ; pastor of the historic 
Old South Church from 1884. Here for the past twenty years. 
(" The Christ of To-Day ; " " The New Epoch for Faith ; " etc.) 

No. 66 J. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) Wesselhoeft. Here to 1903. 
Now at 176 Commonwealth Avenue. 

No. 855. Edward Augustus Horton( 1 843- ). For years pas- 
tor of the Second Church (Unitarian), Copley Square. (" Noble 
Lives and Noble Deeds ; " " Beacon Lights of Christian History.") 
No. U54. Massachusetts Historical Society. The oldest institu- 
tion of its kind in America, established in 1791. Contains a library 
of about 1 50,000 books and pamphlets, and some thousands of man- 
uscripts. Its own publications, including its valuable Collections and 
Proceedings, comprise about 100 separate volumes. Has large in- 
vested funds and a beautiful building to which the public is admitted. 
Many valuable portraits and relics are to be seen, among them the 
" crossed swords " mentioned in the opening of Thackeray's *' Vir- 
ginians." Worn at the battle of Bunker Hill,. one by W. H. Pres- 
cott's grandfather, the other by the grandfather of Prescott's wife, 
these swords were formerly in the library of the historian. The 
President of this Society is Charles Francis Adams (1835- ), son 
of the first of that name (see Mt. Vernon Street). He lived formerly 
in Quincy, now in Lincoln, and is the author of numerous historical 
works and addresses. (" Three Episodes of Massachusetts His- 
tory ; " " Lee at Appomattox and Other Papers ; " biographies of his 
father, and of Richard Henry Dana.) The librarian, Samuel 
Abbott Green (lives at 72 Harrison Avenue), is well known as a 
scholar and writer on antiquarian, historical, and bibliographical 
matters relating to Massachusetts, and in particular to Boston and 
Groton. 



MARLBOROUGH STREET 25 

Directly across the street, on the very edge of the " Fens," stands 
French's fine monument to John Boyle O'Reilly (see also Charles- 
town). 

MARLBOROUGH STREET 

Running between Beacon Street and Commonwealth 
Avenue, and parallel with them, to the westernmost edge 
of the city's growth, is Marlborough Street. When this 
section has the added dignity and quality of age, it is 
likely that this street will hold about the same relation 
to its neighbors as Chestnut Street now holds to Beacon 
and Mt. Vernon streets. 

No* 80. Edward Jackson LowelL From 1885 to 1890. See also 
Commonwealth Avenue. 

No. 90. Robert C. Winthrop. From 1873 to 1894. See also 
Beacon Street, and Brookline. 

No. U8. Octavius BrooksFrothingham (1822-1895). Between 
1884 and 1890. Son of Nathaniel Langdon (see Charlestown) and 
brother of Ellen (see Commonwealth Avenue). A radical Unitarian 
clergyman, who gave up preaching and devoted himself to a Uterary 
life in Boston in 1880. (" Theodore Parker ; " " Memoir of W. H. 
Channing ; " " George Ripley ; " " Transcendentalism in New Eng- 
land.") 

No. 140. Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop. Until 1895. See 
also Concord. 

No. 142. Elizabeth Phipps Train (1857- ). Novelist and 
translator. (" Autobiography of a Professional Beauty ; " "A Social 
Highwayman.") 

No. J7I. Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856- ). Lawyer, pub- 
licist, and Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard Uni- 
versity. (" Essays on Government ; " " Governments and Parties 
in Continental Europe.") 

No. 224. ''Grace LeBaron*^ Upham (1845- )• The wife of 
Henry M. Upham, of the publishing firm of Damrell & Upham, and 
a writer of stories for children. (" The Rosebud Club ; " " Little 
Miss Faith.") 

No. 303. Helen Leah Reed used to live here with her sister, 
Mrs. Everett Morss. See also Commonwealth Avenue. 

No. 3J2. Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845- )• Critic and 
man of letters, also a translator of some important works. (" From 



26 MARLBOROUGH STREET 

Opitz to Lessing;" "English Literature in the Eighteenth Cen- 
tury ; " " History of Greek Literature ; " etc.) His wife, Lilla (Cabot) 
Perry, is a poet of delicacy and quality. (" Heart of the Weed ; " 
" Impressions : a Book of Verse.") 

No, 358, Barrett Wendell (1855- ). A practicer as well as a 
preacher of sound literature, and Professor of English at Harvard. 
His " Literary History of America " is a work of unusual strength. 
(" The Duchess Emilia," a romance ; " Cotton Mather, the Puri- 
tan Priest ; " " Ralegh in Guiana, Rosamund, and A Christmas 
Masque ; " etc.) 

No, 380. Charles James Sprague (1823- ). Since 1880. Son 
of the poet, Charles Sprague. His published work is small, but 
he has contributed poems, papers, and other matter to periodicals for 
many years. 

No. 387. Morton Dexter (1846- ). Son of Henry Martyn 
Dexter, and formerly editor of the " Congregationalist." ("The 
Story of the Pilgrims.") 

No. 393. Charles Gershom Fall (1845- )• (" Dreams ; " " A 
Village Sketch, and Other Poems ; " etc.) 

No. 431. Anna (Eichberg) Lane (1853- ), formerly Mrs. King, 
and now the wife of John Lane, of " Bodley Head" fame. Here 
till her second marriage. A writer chiefly of short stories. (" Brown's 
Retreat, and Other Stories ; " " Kitwyk Stories ; " etc.) 

No. 459. Frederic Jesup Stimson (" J. S. of Dale ") (1855- ). 
Lives in Dedham in the summer in the reconstructed residence of the 
Federalist statesman, Fisher Ames. A lawyer and a writer of law- 
books. His career as a novelist began with a share in the author- 
ship of the immortal " Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," and among. 
his more popular stories are " Guerndale " and " King Noanett." 



COMMONWEALTH AVENUE 

In Richard Grant White's " Fate of Mansfield Hum- 
phreys " one of the characters, an English woman, speaks 
of this avenue as a " street for gentlemen to live in," and 
as the " most beautiful she has ever seen." A hundred 
years from now there will perhaps be yet more to say of 
this finely conceived entrance into the city. 

No. 10. Thomas Gold Appleton (181 2-1884). From 1864 to 
1884. The brother-in-law of Longfellow and the wit par excellence 



COMMONWEALTH AVENUE 27 

of Boston in the last century, as the Rev. Mather Byles was in the 
eighteenth. Had this brilUant man of the world, with his marked 
aesthetic and hterary temperament, felt the pressure of necessity, 
this country might have gained an artist or a man of letters. ("A 
Sheaf of Papers ; " " A Nile Journal ; " etc.) 

No. J9. Thomas Coffin Amory (1812-1SS9). A lawyer by pro- 
fession, he turned with ability to the writing of history, biography, 
and even verse, especially in a poem on " William Blackstone, 
Boston's First Inhabitant." (" Life of James Sullivan ; " " Military 
Services of Major-General John Sullivan; " " Transfer of Erin.") 

No. 40. Edward Jackson Lowell (184 5-1 S94). Historian. ("The 
Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the 
Revolutionary War;" "The Eve of the French Revolution.") See 
also Marlborough Street. 

No. 45. Kate Gannett Wells (1838- ). A daughter of the 
Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, and among her other activities a leader of 
the older views in regard to equal suffrage, to which question she 
contributes by voice and pen. (" About People ; " " Miss Curtis ; '' 
etc.) See also Boylston Street. 

No. J76. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) Wesselhoeft (1840- ). A 
writer of popular juveniles, of which, among the more recent, are 
" High School Days in Harbortown ; " " Old Sultan's Thanksgiv- 
ing." Formerly at 661 Boylston Street. 

No. 184. " The Abbotsford." This modern apartment hotel has 
been and is the home of several writers, among them Helen Leah 
Reed (186 - ), author of " Miss Theodora" and the " Brenda" 
stories; and Lttcy W. Jennison (see Charles Street). "William 
Dean Howells^ in his energetic JVanderjahre, once lived on this 
spot, and " The Abbotsford " covers the site of his Avenue house 
(see also Beacon Street, Louisburg Square, and Cambridge). 

No. 191. " Hotel Agassiz." Anna Fuller (1853- ). Author 
of " A Venetian June ; " " A Literary Courtship ; " " Pratt Portraits ; " 
etc.; and, up to her death, Ellen Frothingham (1835-1902), the 
daughter of Nathaniel Langdon (see Charlestown) and sister of 
Octavius Brooks Frothingham (see Marlborough Street). Noted 
for her fine translations from the German, especially of Lessing, 
Goethe, Auerbach, and Grillparzer. 

No. 325. Hannah Parker Kimball (1861- ). A verse writer. 
(" Soul and Sense ; " " The Cup of Life ; " " Victory ; " etc.) 

No. 340. Ashton Rollins Willard (1858- ). A lawyer and 
litterateur, who has devoted himself to a study of Italian art. 
(" History of Modern Italian Art ; " " The Land of the Latins.") 



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BACK BAY DISTRICT 

OUTSIDE OF BEACON AND MARLBOROUGH STREETS AND 

COMMONWEALTH AVENUE 

Berkeley Street, No. 249. Edmund Farwell Slaf ter ( 1 8 1 6- ) . 
Clergyman, an accurate and scholarly historian, and the President 
of the Prince Society. (" John Checkley ; or the Evolution of Re- 
ligious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay;" "Voyage of the North- 
men to America.") 

Clarendon Street, No. 233. Phillips Brooks (i 835-1 893). Ac- 
counted the foremost preacher in America of his day, and the sixth 
Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts in the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church. This rectory was the home of Phillips Brooks 
for many years until his death, but Trinity Church is the true 
memorial of his life and works. {" The Influence of Jesus : Bohlen 
Lectures ; " " Letters of Travel ; " etc.) 

Dartmouth Street, " Trinity Court." Leon Henry Vincent ( 1 859- 
). Author and lecturer. (" The Bibliotaph ; " " Brief Studies 
in French Society and Letters in the XVIIth Century," 4 vols.) 

No. 81. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896). Under the signa- 
ture of " Carleton," a once famous war correspondent, journalist, 
and writer. His numerous books, patriotically historical, have ap- 
pealed to American youth. ("Winning his Way;" "Following 
the Flag ; " etc.) 

No. 206. Gertrude Hall (1863- ). A writer of verse and strik- 
ing stories. Lived here from 1892 to 1896. {" Far from To-Day; " 
" Foam of the Sea, and Other Tales ; " " Allegretto ; " etc.) 

No. 281. May Alden Ward (1853- ). A writer, chiefly of 
artistic biography. (" Petrarch ; " " Dante; " " Old Colony Days." ) 

St. James Avenue (off Copley Square), "The Ludlow." Rich- 
ard (Eugene) Burton (1859- ). Author, editor, critic, and pub- 
lisher. (" Dumb in June, and Other Poems ; " " Forces in Fic- 
tion ; " " John Greenleaf Whittier ; " " Literary Likings ; " etc.) 

Huntington Avenue, "The Oxford." Catherine Mary (Rei- 
gnolds) (Mrs. Erving) Winslow (183 - ). A once popular ac- 
tress and now a well-known reader. (" Yesterdays with Actors ; " 
" Readings from the Old English Dramatists ; " etc.) 

No. 90. Horatio Willis Dresser (1866- ). A writer on " ap- 
pHed" metaphysics. Best known for his " Power of Silence." 

Blagden Street, No. 15. Ralph Wilhelm (187 1- ) and Anna 



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(Farquhar) Bcfgcngren (1865- )• Both journalists and writers 
for magazines. He is the author of "In Case of Need; " and she, 
" Her Boston Experiences ; " " Her Washington Experiences ; " etc. 
St. Botolph Street, No. JOI. Minot J. Savage (1841- ). A 
radical clergyman, writer on modern social science, Christianity, 
and psychical research. Now in New York. ("Jesus and Modern 
Life;" "Can Telepathy Explain?" " Bluffton : a Novel;" etc.) 
Here also lived his son Philip Henry Savage (see Beacon Street). 
No. 102. Edwin Reed (I S3 5- ). Shakespearean scholar, and 
one of the strongest advocates of the " Baconian Theory." (" Bacon 
vs. Shakspeare; " "Bacon and Shakspeare Parallelisms.") 

Newbury Street, No. 4. The St. Botolph Club. A club 
which through its members exerts a powerful influence on the liter- 
ary, artistic, and musical interests of Boston. 

No. 35. Margaret Deland. Since 1902. See also Mt, Vernon 
Street. 

No. 250. Vida D. Scudder (1861- ). Until 1902. A Pro- 
fessor of English Literature at Wellesley College, as well as critic 
and editor. (" The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets; " 
" Social Ideals in English Letters ; " etc.) Now in Newton. 

Fairfield Street, No. 16. John Torrey Morse, Jr. (1840- ). 
Nephew and biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Besides his 
" Life " of Holmes, he has written historical biographies of Hamil- 
ton, J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Lincoln, and Franklin. 

Kenmore Street, No. 10. Ferris Greenslet (1875- )• Asso 
date editor " Atlantic Monthly." (" Joseph Glanvill ; " " The Quest 
of the Holy Grail.") 

Massachusetts Avenue, No. 3J, "The Stratford." Thomas 
Russell Sullivan (1849- )• Novelist and dramatist. Besides 
several plays, he has written "Tom Sylvester;" "Roses of 
Shadow; " " Ars et Vita; " " The Courage of Conviction ; " etc. 

"Westland Avenue, No. 68. James Jeffrey Roche (1847- )• A 
popular Boston journalist and writer both of prose and verse. Since 
1890 editor of " The Pilot." (" Ballads of Blue Water ; " " Life of 
John Boyle O'Reilly; " " Her Majesty the King; " etc.) 

Fenway, No. 24. Moorfield Storey (1845- ). Lawyer, and 
participant, through his pen, in the vital questions of the times. He 
used to live in Brookline. (" Charles Sumner.") 
Off to the right and across the railroad is : — 
Bay State Road, No. 211. Robert Grant (1852- ) . A j udge 
of the busy Probate Court, he has written sketches and stories 
full of gracious touches and a delicate sympathy with life. Not- 
withstanding the " daintier sense " of most of his writing, he has 



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THE SOUTH END 



achieved one novel so serious as to be almost solemn, " Unleavened 
Bread." (" Reflections of a Married Man ; " " The Art of Living ; " 
" The Opinions of a Philosopher.") 

THE SOUTH END 

No, 36 Claremont Park. Walter Leon Sawyer (1862- ). 
Journalist, editor, and an admirable exponent of the social aspects 
of the "South End " of Boston. ("An Outland Journey;" "A 
Local Habitation.") 

No. J 75 Warren Avenue. Frank Gelett Burgess. From 1899 
to 1901. A humorous writer, best known as the editor of "The 
Lark" and the author of the famous " Purple Cow." ("Vivette; 
or, The Memoirs of the Romance Association ; " etc.) 

No. 28 Rutland Square. (Ellen) Louise Chandler Moulton 
(1835- ). Poet and prose writer. Among her numerous works 
are " Poems ; " " Swallow Flights ; " " Miss Eyre from Boston ; " 
" At the Wind's Will." 

No. 598 Tremont Street. Charles James Sprague (1823- ). 
Up to 18S0. See also Marlborough Street. 

No. 638. William Elliot Griffis (1843- ). Now in Ithaca, 
N. Y. He has written largely on Japan, on early American history, 
and of late on Holland. (" The Mikado's Empire ; " '* Japan : in 
History, Folk-Lore, and Art ; " " The Pilgrims in their Three 
Homes ; " " The American in Holland.") 

No. 28 Worcester Street. Hezekiah Butterworth (1837- ). 
A prolific writer for youth, and for many years on the staff of 
the " Youth's Companion." (" Zigzag Journeys ; " " The Knight of 
Liberty ; " " In the Boyhood of Lincoln ; " etc.) 

No. 65. William Henry Whitmore (1836-1900). His latest 
home. Long the City Registrar of Boston, and an authority on 
matters of genealogy and local history. (" American Genealogy; " 
editor of the " Andros Tracts ; " etc.) 

No. 47 Concord Square. Ralph Waldo Trine (1866- ). 
From 1894 to 1896, then St. Botolph Street. Writer and lecturer. 
(" What all the World 's a-Seeking ; " " In Tune with the Infinite.") 

No. 61 Brookline Street. Justin Winsor^ the eminent historian, 
librarian, and bibliographer. From 1861 to 1871, during part of 
which time he was Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. 
Later lived in Cambridge. 

No. 6 Rollins Street. " South End House." Robert Archey 
Woods. Humanitarian and social student. ("The City wilder- 
ness ; " " Americans in Process.") 



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No. 1330 Washington Street. Mary Elizabeth (McGrath) Blake. 
From 1876 to 1895. See Beacon Street. 

DORCHESTER 

Comprising Wards 16, 20, and 24 of the city, Dor- 
chester covers a large territory, and is interesting histori- 
cally, but it is rather barren of literary landmarks. 

"William Taylor Adams (1822-1897), dear as " Oliver Optic " to 
the boys of a generation ago, lived at 1479 Dorchester Avenue 
at the time of his death. At 55 Lyndhurst Street, years ago, Uved 
Frederic Beecher Perkins (i 828-1 S99), grandson cf Lyman Beecher, 
and father of Charlotte (Perkins) Stetson (now Oilman). He was an 
accompUshed librarian, editor, and bibliographer. (" Scrope, or the 
Lost Library," besides " Devil-Puzzlers, and other Studies," and 
" Charles Dickens : his Life and Works.") 

Edward Payson Jackson (1840- ). At 41 Lyndhurst Street. 
Educator, author, and writer for magazines. ("Character Build- 
ing ; " " The Earth in Space ; " also a novel, " A Demigod.") Jef- 
ferson Lee Harbour (1857- ), on the staff of the "Youth's 
Companion," and writer of many short stories, lives at 3 Bowdoin 
Avenue. Maria Susanna Cummins, author of " The Lamplighter," 
died in Dorchester in 1866. See Salem. 

ROXBURY 

When the residents of the old city of Roxbury became (by an- 
nexation in 1868) citizens of Boston, the latter acquired rights of 
proprietary pride in a worthy list of Roxbury names. John Eliot 
(1 604-1 690), the Apostle to the Indians, whose remains lie in the 
ancient and well-nigh forgotten burying-ground at the corner of 
Washington and Eustis streets, may fitly be said to head the roll of 
Roxbury's literary fame, while Edward Everett Hale, in his home 
at 39 Highland Street, only a few steps from the present home of 
John Eliot's first charge, — the First Religious Society of Roxbury, 
— represents it as few others of the present day could. 

Eliot's permanent claim to remembrance in letters as well as in his- 
tory is his translation of the Bible into the Indian tongue (copies of 
the editions of 1663 and 1685 are in the Public Library), but his In- 
dian Grammar, his Indian Primer, " The Glorious Progress of the 
Gospel amongst the Indians," are memorable too. Nor may we 



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forget that Eliot made Baxter's " Call to the Unconverted" fa- 
miliar to the Indians under the title of " Wehkomaonganoo asquam 
Peantogig Kah asquam Quinnuppegig." 

Dr. Hale's literary activity covers a long reach of time and a wide 
field of accomplishments. To mention him is to recall his master- 
piece, " The Man without a Country ;" then, omitting to recount 
his many contributions to history, biography, and philanthropy, 
there come to mind his latest and ripest, " A New England Boy- 
hood ; " " James Russell Lowell and his Friends ; " and " Memories 
of a Hundred Years." In this Highland vStreet home have so- 
journed for long periods his sister, Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820- 
1900), and his son, Edward Everett Hale, Jr, (1863- ), who has 
written " James Russell Lowell ; " " Ballads and Ballad Poetry ; " 
and with his father, " Franklin in France." 

Farther up Highland Street, at No. 125, lived "William Lloyd 
Garrison (i 805-1 879), the living soul of the anti-slavery cause. 
Though eloquent himself, he made, as editor of " The Liberator," 




HOME OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE 
ROXBURY 



the press the chief agency of his purpose, while Phillips and Sumner 
reUed mainly on their matchless oratory. (" Thoughts on African 
Colonization ; " " Sonnets and Other Poems.") 

At 2 Linwood Square (off Linwood Street and between Highland 



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and Centre streets) lived Jane Goodwin Austin (1831-1894), the 
author of a series of romances relating to the Pilgrims and their 
descendants, of considerable literary importance. (" A Nameless 
Nobleman ; " " Standish of Standish ; " " Dr. LeBaron and his 
Daughters ; " etc.) See Concord, where she died. 

Julius H. Ward (1837-1897) lived at 23 Linwood Street* Clergy- 
man, author, and long on the staff of the " Boston Herald." (" Life 
and Letters of James Gates Percival ; " " The Church in Modern 
Society ; " " Life of Bishop White.") See also Brookhne. 

At 2 Dunreath Place, near Warren Street, the home of Dr. 
Rhoda A. Lawrence, died, March 6, 1888, Louisa May Alcott, 
after a residence there of some six months. See Louisburg Square, 
Pinckney Street, and Concord. 

No, J6 Warren Place, William Adolphus Wheeler (1833-1874), 
librarian and bibliographical scholar, who edited an abridgment of 
Webster's Dictionary, and compiled the useful " Dictionary of the 
Noted Names of Fiction," and " Familiar Allusions." 

Warren Street, corner Regent. (" The Warren.") Henry Wood 
(1834- ), a writer on psychological and economic themes, and 
also a novelist. (" Edward Burton " and " Victor Severus," 
novels ; " The Political Economy of Natural Law ; " etc.) Now in 
Cambridge. 

No. J44 Dudley Street. John Preston True (1859- ). A 
popular writer of juveniles. Now lives at Waban. (" Scouting for 
Washington ; " " Morgan's Men ; " etc.) 

No. I Atherton Place. Katherine Eleanor Conway (1853- ). 
Poet and journalist. (" Songs of the Sunrise Slope ; " " Lalor's 
Maples ; " " Way of the World ; " etc.) 

No. 52 Atherton Street. Helen Maria Winslow (185 1- ). Au- 
thor and journalist. ("The Shawsheen Mills;" "Concerning 
Cats ; " " Literary Boston of To-Day ; " etc.) 

No. 10 Rockville Place. This was the home of Samuel Gardner 
(1798-187 5) and his sons, Francis Samuel (i 828-1 885) and Samuel 
Adams Drake (1833- ), all men of strong and similar literary 
and antiquarian tastes and accomplishments. S. G. Drake, besides 
editing several historical works, wrote " History and Antiquities of 
Boston ; " " Annals of Witchcraft in New England ; " and numerous 
works on the Indians. F. S. Drake, w^hose " Dictionary of American 
Biography " has been incorporated in " Appleton's Cyclopaedia of 
Biography," was also the author of a " Life of General Knox," a his- 
tory of the " Town of Roxbury," etc. His brother, S. A. Drake, 
now living in Maine, is the author of a large number of historico- 
antiquarian works, among which " Old Landmarks and Historic 



34 WEST ROXBURY 

Personages of Boston," " Nooks and Corners of the New England 
Coast," and " Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex " 
are memorable. F. S. Drake also lived, after his father's death, 
at No. 3 Mt. Warren Street. 

In the house at the corner of Moreland and Fairland streets lived 
Epes Sargent (1812-1880), the author of the familiar poem " Life on 
the Ocean Wave." He was once a prominent poet, dramatist, and 
novelist, and compiler of a series of Standard Readers and Spellers. 
Among his works are " Peculiar : a Tale of the Great Transition ; " 
" Velasco, A Tragedy ; " " The Woman who Dared ; " " Songs of the 
Sea." 

No. 59 Waverley Street. Charles FoIIen Adams (i 842-1903). 
Best and deservedly remembered as the author of " Leedle Yawcob 
Strauss, and Other Poems ; " " Dialect Ballads ; " and the like. 

WEST ROXBURY AND BROOK FARM 

Although in the wide territory comprised by Jamaica 
Plain, Forest Hills, and West Roxbury, there are several 
names of importance and interest, which will be briefly 
summarized below, the crowning feature in the annals, 
historical and literary, of this picturesque district of the 
city is "Brook Farm." This beautiful but unfertile es- 
tate, comprising originally about 170 acres, was bought on 
a mortgage for $10,500. In the spring of 1841, George 
Ripley and his wife, with a few other chosen spirits, began 
the new life there. The Association, which was in no 
sense a Socialistic Community, was later and formally 
known as the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and 
Education. In May, 1845, ^^ became the Brook Farm 
Phalanx, under a modified form of Fourierism, and de- 
clined in influence and prosperity from that time until 
1847, when it ceased to exist as an experiment. The ex- 
cellent school, the farming, and various small industries 
were the means of livelihood. Among the members who 
later in life achieved distinction in literature and other 
pursuits were George Ripley, for years a successful editor 
in New York ; Charles A. Dana, editor of the " New York 
Sun ;" John S. Dvvight, musical critic; and Nathaniel 



WEST ROXBURY 35 

Hawthorne, whose " Blithedale Romance " gives the 
effect if not the substance of Brook Farm life, as the 
great romancer found it. Among the frequent visitors 
and in a measure identified with the venture were Emer- 
son, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, W. H. Channing, Orestes 
A. Brownson, Theodore Parker, C. P. Cranch, Albert 
Brisbane, and Elizabeth P. Peabody. Eminent among 
the many bright scholars were the two Curtises, George 
William and Burrill, and Isaac T. Hecker, later a Paul- 
ist Father. Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz and Georgiana 
Bruce, afterwards Mrs. Kirby, were among the teachers. 
The building first met on entering the estate is now the 
Martin Luther Orphan Home, and rests on the founda- 
tions of the old " Hive," one of the important centres 
of the Brook Farm life. The only community build- 
ing now standing is the cottage some distance inside 
the estate. It is mistakenly called the " Margaret Fuller " 
Cottage. On the highest point are the traces of the cel- 
lar of the Eyry, where lived the Ripleys, Miss Bruce, the 
Curtises, and the eccentric Charles Newcomb. Below this 
site and toward the entrance, on a sandbank, one may 
find faint evidences that here once stood a long, narrow 
building. It was the famous Phalanstery, and its destruc- 
tion by fire in 1846 hastened the ruin of the enterprise. 
Brook Farm may be reached by taking the steam cars 
to Spring Street station and walking through Baker Street 
for about a mile, or one may get out at Highland station 
and take a carriage. A visitor will be repaid by going 
to this famous spot, but the impression received there is 
in part a melancholy one, for everything speaks of a once 
brilliant experiment, now hopelessly a thing of the past. 

A few of the literary names of the past and the present of the 
West Roxbury district are as follows : In Jamaica Plain, — the 
Rev, James Freeman Clarke (1810-18S8), on Woodside Avenue; 
Rev. Charles F. Dole (1845- )' ^4 Roanoke Avenue; Nathan 
Haskell Dole (1852- ), 91 Glen Road; Elizabeth P. Peabody, 
who died in Jamaica Plain; Caroline Ticknor, 13 Hanis Avenue ; 



36 CHARLESTOWN 

Martha Agnes (Mrs. Francis Watts) Lee, 63 Peter Parley Road. 
At ForestHills, — Edwin Lassetter Bynner (1842-1893), the author 
of " Agnes Surriage," and other historical fiction of a high order ; 
Ednah Dow (Littlehale) Cheney (1824- ), the biographer of 
Louisa M. Alcott, 117 Forest Hills Street. In West Roxbury, — 
Theodore Parker, on Centre Street, near the Spring Street station ; 
on Cottage Street, near Parker's home, still stands the house in 
which lived Francis George Shaw, a man of letters, whose daughter 
became the wife of George William Curtis. Shaw's son was Colonel 
Robert G. Shaw, whose memorial stands opposite the State House. 
Down Centre Street (near Central Station) toward Boston is Theo- 
dore Parker^s Church, during his first ministry from 1837 to 1846. 
His statue is in front of the present Unitarian Church, corner of 
Centre and Corey streets. 

CHARLESTOWN 

This rather out-of-the-way district of Boston — once a 
city apart — has had much more to do with the making 
of history than of literature. Yet Charlestown has borne, 
bred, or harbored a notable, if small, array of writers. 

Among those of whom there are left no domestic memorials in the 
old town are James Walker (1794-1874), minister at Charlestown, 
1 818-1838, President of Harvard University, 1 853-1 860; author of 
" Lectures on Natural Religion," and " Lectures on the Philosophy 
of Religion," etc. ; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793- 1870), fa- 
ther of Octavius Brooks and Ellen Frothingham (see Marlborough 
Street, and Commonwealth Avenue), and master of a singularly 
graceful and refined style, displayed in such works as " Deism of 
Christianity," " Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth," and 
" Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated; " Richard Frothingham 
(1812-1880), editor of the " Boston Morning Post" from 1852 until 
1865, and a marked contributor to local annals by his " History of 
the Siege of Boston," his " History of Charlestown," etc. 

At No* 34 "Winthrop Street lived for many years John Boyle 
O^Reilly (1844-1890), poet, editor, patriot, and wit. He was long 
editor of " The Pilot." Although some of his work is ephemeral, 
much of it is true poetry. 

No. 13 Green Street. James F. Hunnewell. See Beacon Street. 

In the old Edes House on Main Street, lived for a time " The 
Father of American Geography," Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826). 



CAMBRIDGE 37 

As an author he is best known by his " Elements of Geogra- 
phy," " Annals of the American Revolution," " A Compendious 
History of New England," and " American Gazetteer." In this 
Main Street house also, as a tablet affixed to its wall relates, was 
born Jedidiah Morse's preeminent son, Samuel Finley Breese Morse 
( 1 791-1872), the inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph. The 
son's fame as an inventor overshadows the rest of his life, yet he 
was bred as a painter, and some of his portraits and genre paintings 
are among the best specimens of American art. Among his writ- 
ings, always of a serious turn, are " Foreign Conspiracies against 
the Liberties of the United States," and " Our Liberties Defended." 
At No, 2 Elm Street, corner of Hancock, can still be seen an old 
parsonage of the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, in which his son also lived; 
it is now, however, some distance from its original location. 

Farther down Main Street, at the corner of Dunstable, stands 
the house in which that influential preacher and writer, the Rev, 
Thomas Starr King (1824-1864) passed part of his boyhood and 
young manhood. (" The White Hills, a Volume of Travel in the 
White Mountains ; " " Patriotism and Other Papers ; " " Christian- 
ity and Humanity.") Many of his manuscripts are in the Boston 
Public Library. 

In the old Bell House, at the southerly corner of Elm and 
High streets, lived, until 1896, the antiquarian and local historian, 
Henry Herbert Edes (1849- ), who has published "Charles- 
town's Historic Points;" "History of the Harvard Church in 
Charlestown, 1815-1879; " etc. Now in Cambridge. 

Lastly, to wander excusably to one of the allied arts, it may be 
noted that Charlotte Cushman, one of the last hereditary queens 
of the stage, lived for several years during her girlhood in the 
building next to the corner of Main and "Walker streets, the lower 
story of which is now used as a grocery store. ("Charlotte Cush- 
man : her Letters and Memories of her Life. Edited by her Friend, 
Emma Stebbins.") 



CAMBRIDGE 

The city of Cambridge has contained since 1636 the 
chief seat of learning in the country. It can readily be 
conceived, then, that Cambridge is and has been the home 
of almost countless literary workers. A large class of 
writers is recruited from Harvard University alone, — 
a class so large that this little volume will not make any 



38 CAMBRIDGE 

attempt to deal with it, but rather refer its readers to the 
"Official Guide to Harvard University" (Cambridge, 
1902), which gives the names and addresses of professors 
and instructors. Practically all of these may be said to 
have written books, sometimes on more or less technical 
subjects, and as often not. Of the other class of authors, 
— those drawn hither by the culture of a University town, 
or native to it, those now dead, or not officially connected 
with the University, — only the most important are, for 
lack of space, here referred to. It may be further worth 
noting that among the numerous men of eminence whose 
bodies rest in Mount Auburn are Agassiz, Longfellow, 
Lowell, Parkman, and Sumner. 

For a fuller account of the houses and names in Cam- 
bridge, Mr. Edwin M. Bacon's " Historic Pilgrimages " 
and " Literary Pilgrimages " will be found entertaining 
and trustworthy. 

No* 71 Cherry Street, This was the birthplace of (Sarah) Mar- 
garet Fuller, Marchesa d' Ossoli (1810-1S50), who is to-day less a 
force than a memory in our literature. She was a prominent figure 
as editor of the " Dial," as literary critic for " The New York 
Tribune," and as a teacher. This house, now a Settlement House, 
and the old ** Brattle Mansion/^ on Brattle Street, are all that are 
left of her several Cambridge homes. (" Woman in the Nineteenth 
Century ; " " At Home and Abroad.") 

"Wads worth House. One of the University buildings facing on 
Massachusetts Avenue, but inside the "Yard." Built 1726-1727. 
Called the " President's House," because otificially occupied by suc- 
cessive presidents of the University until 1S49. In 1775 i^ was 
occupied for a short time by Generals Washington and Lee, and 
Washington's earlier despatches to Congress, to Richard Henry 
Lee, and to General Schuyler w'ere written here. Emerson (see 
Concord) lived here when he was " President's Freshman." 

'^ The Bishop^s Palace/^ on Linden Street, is so nicknamed on 
account of the famous controversy over the establishment of the 
Anglican Episcopate in America, one end of which was waged from 
this house by the Reverend East Apthorp shortly before the Revo- 
lution. In this house also that author of skits and farces, Lieu- 
tenant-General John Burgoyne, lived on parole after his defeat on 
the plains of Saratoga. 



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No» 90 Brattle Street, corner Ash Street, is the new home which 
John Fiske, historian and philosopher, built just before his death, 
but in which he never lived. It is now occupied by his widow. At 
the time of his death he lived at 22 Berkeley Street. (" Works," 24 
vols., 1902.) 

No. 105 Brattle Street. The ^^Craigie/' or the "Longfellow," 




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House. Occupied, first in part and then as a whole, by Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1S82) for forty-five years.i When 
he came to Cambridge in 1836 he lived for a year on Kirkland 
Street. The next year (1837) he moved to the Craigie House, 
taking rooms, one of which had been occupied by Washington after 
he left Wadsworth House. In 1841, Joseph Emerson Worcester (see 
also Salem), the famous lexicographer and philologist, leased and 
lived in the house, Longfellow keeping his rooms. Shortly after- 
wards Longfellow bought the house, and Worcester moved a 
little way down the street nearer Brattle Square, where his house 
still stands. Beside Longfellow, Washington, and Worcester, there 

^ Through the kindness of Miss Longfellow the members of the National Edu- 
cational Association will be permitted to visit Mr. LotigfeUoius study each day of 
the convention, except Monday, between two and five p. M. 



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have lived at different times in the Craigie House such men as 
Edward Everett, "Willard Phillips, and Jared Sparks. Longfellow 
is so world-widely known that the mention of his " Works " in 
fourteen volumes will be suggestion enough. 

Samuel Longfellow {1819-1892), author of a life of his brother, 
the poet, a memoir of Samuel Johnson, and a number of spirited 
hymns and poems, lived at No. 76, a little further down the street. 

No. J 49 Brattle Street. Frederike Charlotte Luiser Freiherrin 
von Riedesel (i 746-1808), and her husband, Baron Riedesel, who 




ELMWOOD, HOME OF JAxMES RUSSELL LOWELL 

CAMBRIDGE 

commanded the Brunswickers under Bargoyne, lodged in this house 
as prisoners on parole. Her interesting " Letters and Journals " 
give her a place here. The original paroles of honor, signed by 
Burgoyne, Riedesel, and 185 English and 95 German officers, are 
in the Boston Public Library (facsimile in its Bulletin, vol. ii. p. 346). 
** Elmwood,^^ on Elmwood Avenue, not far from the entrance to 
Mount Auburn, was the home from birth to death, with intervals of 
separation, of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). He was one of 
the founders, and editor, 1857-1862, of the " Atlantic Monthly;" 
and co-editor, with Charles Eliot Norton (see " Shady Hill "), 1863- 
1872, of the " North American Review." Minister to Spain and 
England, 1877-1885. His "Writings," which of themselves con- 
stitute a treasure-house of native American belles-lettres, are pub- 



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lished in eleven volumes. Maria (White) Lowell (i 821-1853), his 
first wife, was a writer of some fine verse. (" Poems.") In this 
house Thomas Bailey Aldrich (see Boston : Charles, Mt. Vernon, 
and Pinckney streets) lived for two years while its owner was 
away. 

On Berkeley Street^ corner Phillips Place, lived in the early sixties 
Richard H. Dana, 2d. See Boston : Beacon Street. 

At No. 37 Concord Avenue, and also earlier on Sacramento Street 
(both houses standing), lived nearly through the seventies William 
DeanHowells (see Boston: Beacon Street, and Louisburg Square). 

No. 17 Buckingham Street. Horace E. Scudder (i 838-1 902). 
Author, and editor of the "Atlantic Monthly." ("The Bodley 
Books ; " " Men and Letters ; " " James Russell Lowell.") 

No. 29 Buckingham Street. Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
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yet keen reminiscences of his contemporaries and of his own busy, 
useful life as minister, soldier, author, and reformer. (" Old Cam- 
bridge;" "Cheerful Yesterdays;" "Life of Margaret Fuller;" 
" Malbone ; " etc.) This has been Colonel Higginson's home for 
some years. His birthplace stands at the upper end of Kirkland 
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** Fay House/^ on Garden Street^ the main building of Radcliff e 
College, is notable if only because such men as Professor McKean, 
Edward Everett, and Francis Dana (the son of the Chief Justice) 
lived in it at different periods between 1810 and 1835. But it was 
here that the Rev, Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S. C, the 
brother-in-law of Judge Fay, on the occasion of the 200th anniver- 
sary celebration of the University in 1836, wrote the famous song 
of " Fair Harvard." 

No, 30 Oxford Street was the home of John Gorham Palfrey 
(1796-1881). Clergyman, Professor of Sacred Literature at Har- 
vard University, Member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, 
1861-1867. His master-work is his comprehensive " History of 
New England," in five volumes. Other works by him are " Lowell 
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity" (2 vols.), and "The 
Relation between Judaism and Christianity." 

In this house still lives his daughter, Sarah Hammond Palfrey 
(1823- ), novelist and verse WTiter, who has written under the 
name of E. Foxton. (" King Arthur in Avalon ; " " The Chapel, 
and Other Poems ; " " Herman, or Young Knighthood; " etc.) 

'* Shady Hill/^ in "Norton's Woods," off Irving Street, is the 
home of Charles Eliot Norton (1827- ). Among his works are 
" Notes of Travel and Study in Italy," and " Historical Studies of 
Church-Building in the Middle Ages," and his translations from 
Dante. He has also edited the " Reminiscences," " Letters," and 
correspondence of Carlyle (his personal friend) with Emerson and 
Goethe ; and also some of the literary remains of two other friends, 
Curtis and Lowell. No American has been richer in his intellectual 
intimacies than Mr. Norton. In this house his father, Andrews 
Norton (1786-1853), lived before him. He was, like Palfrey, Pro- 
fessor of Sacred Literature at Harvard, and wrote " Internal Evi- 
dences of the Genuineness of the Gospels," etc. 

A little down Kirkland Street, once called Professors' Row, is the 
home of Francis James Child (1825-1896), who long held the Pro- 
fessorship of English Literature in the College, and who was, and 
still remains, the foremost authority on ballad literature. He edited 
the American Edition of the British Poets in 130 vols.; also " The 
English and Scottish Popular Ballads," in 5 vols. 

At the southeast corner of Quincy Street and Broadway stands 
the former home of Louis (Jean Rodolphe ) Agassiz (1807-1873), 
the eminent naturalist, and founder of the Museum of Natural His- 
tory of Harvard. (" Methods of Study in Natural History ; " «' Etudes 
sur les Glaciers;" "Contributions to the Natural History of the 
United States of America," in 4 vols. ; etc.) 



CONCORD 43 

The house on Quincy Street next above the Agassiz house, and 
now occupied by the Theological School of the New Jerusalem 
Church, was for his last twenty years the home of Jared Sparks 
(1789-1S66), Professor of History at Harvard, 1839-1S49, and Pre- 
sident of the University, 1849-1853. He edited and is remem- 
bered by a " Library of American Biography," comprising some 
sixty lives, of which he wTOte those of Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, 
Marquette, La Salle, Pulaski, Ribault, Charles Lee, and Ledyard, 
although he is best known in letters as the editor, authoritative in 
his day, of the works of Washington and Franklin. 

No. J I Quincy Street was the home of the Rev. Andrew Pres- 
ton Peabody (1S11-1S93), one of the most tolerant and beloved 
of thinkers, and long Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at 
the University. He was a prolific writer. (" Moral Philosophy ; " 
" Reminiscences of European Travel.") This house was the old 
Dana Mansion, and was formerly occupied by Cornelius Conway 
Felton (1807-1862), first a professor in, later President of. Harvard 
University. His translations from the Greek will always remain 
noteworthy. (" Greece, Ancient and Modern ; " " Familiar Letters 
from Europe.") 

No. 17 Quincy Street. Charles William Eliot {1834- ). 
Distinguished educator, and President of the University since 1869. 
(" Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect ; " " American Contributions 
to Civilization ; " " Educational Reform : Essays and Addresses.") 



CONCORD 

Concord and Lexington, in the popular imagination, 
stand closely related, though they are several miles apart. 
Historically they may always divide honors even, but in 
our literary annals Lexington is as barren of monuments 
as Concord is full of them. If we may fancifully think 
of Boston as the mind of Puritanism, so is Concord the 
soul of it, for here transcendentalism found fullest expres- 
sion, and here plain living and high thinking were realized 
ideals. All the memorable men and women of the golden 
age of Concord but Mr. F. B. Sanborn are dead, yet 
their lives are something more vital than memories. The 
town is not different in essence from what it was when 
Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, William 



44 CONCORD 

Ellery Channing, and the Alcotts, father and daughter, 
gave it preeminence in the world of American letters. 
What they brought here, for Thoreau alone was Concord- 
born, took root and spread, until the growth became so 
firm that it has outlived the span of their lives, and is not 
soon likely to disappear. Concord is Concord still, a liv- 
ing evidence rather than a dead memorial. 

Assuming that the visitor will, as is necessary in small 
places, make inquiries for himself, let us go at once to 
the most famous, though not the most picturesque, literary 
shrine in Concord, and possibly in America. 

Ralph "Waldo Emerson (i8o3-r882) went to this house in 1835, 
and there he lived for forty-seven years, until his death in 1882. The 
house is square, two-storied, entirely without architectural adorn- 
ment. It faces the turnpike, and stands among pine trees. In the 
rear is a garden, speaking eloquently of by-gone taste in flowers. 
The house was but seven years old when Emerson moved into it, 
and it has suffered but little change, though it w^as partially burned 
in 1873. The most notable room is the study on the right as one 
enters the hall which divides the first story, where, so far as possible, 
an undisturbed effect has been preserved. Miss Ellen Emerson, the 
philosopher's daughter, still lives here. His son, Dr. Edward W. 
Emerson, is also a resident of the town. In the cut opposite, Mr. 
Emerson is standing near the porch. 

The *^01d Mansc/^ Hardly less important, and more fair to see, 
is the " Old Manse," the home of the Rev. William Emerson, Emer- 
son's grandfather, then of Rev. Df» Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), who 
married William Emerson's widow. Dr. Ripley published a " History 
of the Fight at Concord," besides many sermons. In their day, it 
was, as the name implies, the parsonage of Concord. Built in 1765, 
it is now a home for some of Dr. Ripley's descendants. Here, just 
before his second marriage (to Miss Lydia Jackson) in 1835, Emer- 
son boarded (1834-1835) with his grandparents, and here too his 
family repaired for a time after the partial burning of his own 
house. On his marriage with Miss Sophia Peabody in July, 1842, 
and after his experience at Brook Farm, Nathaniel Hawthorne 
(see also Salem) also made the " Old Manse " his home, and lived 
there till 1846, when he went to Salem. Mr. Bacon, in his " Walks 
and Rides," tells us that the most satisfactory view of the " Manse " 
is of the back from the river side, and that the decaying orchard in 



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45 



the rear was set out by Dr. Ripley. Hawthorne's study was on the 
second floor over the dining-room, and here Emerson wrote one of 
his greatest essays, " Nature," and from here William Emerson's 
wife saw the fight at Concord Bridge. 

The ^* "Wayside/* where Hawthorne had his residence from 1852 
till his deaih in 1864, is next in importance. In 1845, A. Bronson 




HOME OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON 
CONCORD 

Alcott (1799-1888) bought this estate, calling it "Hillside," and 
sold it later to Hawthorne, who gradually adorned the surroundings to 
suit his own taste, and on his return from Italy made some important 
changes in the house itself, enlarging it and adding the tower-like 
structure which served as his study and, what was more essential, his 
hiding-place. The Library stood on the first floor, but Hawthorne 
was not a man of many books. At the " Wayside " now lives Mrs, 
Harriett Mulford Lothrop (1844- )> who, under the name of 
" Margaret Sidney," has put forth many books for children, chief 
among them the famous " Five Little Peppers." Her husband 
and the publisher of her works, the late Daniel Lothrop, bought 
"Wayside" in 1881, after it had for a short time been occupied 
by George P. Lathrop (see Chestnut Street, Boston) and his wife 
(Hawthorne's daughter. Rose). For some time after Hawthorne's 
death, " Wayside " was used as a boarding-school for girls. The 
original structure was built before the Revolution. 



46 CONCORD 

The Orchard House. In 1857, Alcott, through the efforts of his 
wife and friends, came into possession of " Orchard House," on the 
" Boston Road," with which his memory is most closely identified. 
This house dates back in part over two hundred years, but has been 
remodeled. " Little Women," the foundation of the Alcott for- 
tunes, was written in Orchard House, where also were held some of 
Bronson Alcott's monologuizing " conversations," and Mrs. May 
Nieriker (1840-1879), another of the Alcott daughters, had her 
studio. Close by the Orchard House, which was a home for the 
Alcotts for nearly thirty years, stands the equally famous, though 
more modern, ** Hillside Chapel/^ where, after the preliminary ses- 
sion in the Orchard House, were held from 1879 to 1888 the sum- 
mer meetings of the *^ Concord School of Philosophy and Litera 
tore.^^ Dr. William T. Harris later owned the place. 

Henry David Thoreau (i 817-1862). Of all who made Concord 
so famous, Thoreau was the only native of the soil. He was born 
some distance to the east from the village limits, in a house still 
standing on the Virginia Road. In the house on Main Street, near 
Thoreau Street, the Thoreaus lived for twelve years until his death ; 
previously to that they lived in a house on the village square. The 
Thoreaus. in 1844, lodged the afterwards famous Paulist Father, Isaac 
Thomas Hecker, for seventy-five cents a week, " with lights." For 
two years in the forties, Thoreau lived in Emerson's house. After 
this, for a little over two years, he lived on the shore of Walden Pond^ 
south of the village, in his " hermitage," built in part of timber 
from Emerson's wood-lot. A cairn of stone marks the site of this 
remote philosophical observatory, which cost its builder just $28. 1 2^, 
and was " raised " by the united labors of Thoreau, Emerson, George 
William Curtis, and sympathetic friends. The bed, chair, and table 
used at the Walden hut are in the Concord Antiquarian Society^s 
keeping. Thoreau 's sister, Sophia, was a superior and able wo- 
man, and it is a joy to the present writer that from her he learned 
his Greek alphabet. (" Walden; " " A Week on the Concord and 
Merrimack Riv 2rs ; " " Cape Cod ; " etc.) 

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831- ). The death of W. E. 
Channing, the poet, leaves Mr. vSanborn the last leaf on the Con- 
cord tree. His house is on Elm Street, leading from Main Street. 
As a biographer of several of the most eminent Concord names, he 
may be said to hold a brief for Concord and all that it represents. 

William Ellery Channing (181 8-1902). The poet and recluse, 
" making his wardrobe last beyond the hopes of his friends," to use 
Mr. Sanborn's words, was a nephew of the Rev. William Ellery 
Channing, and the brother-in-law of Margaret Fuller. He lived 



CONCORD 47 

opposite Thoreau's last home, and died in his friend Sanborn's house. 
(" Poems of Sixty-five Years. Edited by F. B. Sanborn ; " " Thoreau, 
the Poet-Naturalist.") Channing's house was, early in his Concord 
career, the home of Sanborn, and John Brown was here entertained 
by him. Later on this spot was the home of Frederic Hudson 
(1819-1875), where, after a connection of thirty years with the " New 
York Herald," he came to end his days. (" Journalism in the United 
States, 1670-1872.") 

George "William Curtis (i 824-1 892) and his brother, Burrill Cur- 
tis, after their rather playful experience at Brook Farm, went to Con- 
cord in 1 844, first to the farm of C aptain Nathan Bairett, a mile south 
of the village, on Punkatasset Hill, and then to the farm of Edmund 
Hosmer, about a mile from Emerson's house. Among other Brook 
Farmers at Concord were George P. Bradford, Minot Pratt, and 
Mrs. Almira Barlow. The most eminent outsider identified with 
Concord is Margaret Fuller (see also Cambridge), the sister-in-law 
of Channing the poet, and the friend of Emerson and Alcott. Her 



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connection with the Transcendental movement, and her editorial 
work on the " Dial," brought her here to one or another of her 
friends' homes, and especially to Emerson's. 

The Hoar Family, Nearly opposite the Public Library on Main 
Street is the mansion where once lived Samuel Hoar (i 778-1856), 
an eminent citizen and statesman of Massachusetts. His two sons, 
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (18 16-1895), and George Frisbie Hoar 
(1826- ), were born in this house. Judge Hoar published little, 



48 CONCORD 

but his forcible and brilliant sayings and the anecdotes told of him 
almost form a literature of themselves. Senator Hoar, besides 
his scholarly addresses and orations, has written several short bio- 
graphical memoirs, but no extended work has come from either of 
these distinguished men. 

Jane Goodwin Austin (183 1 -1894). On Main Street, corner of 
Belknap Street. Previously in Linwood Square, Roxbury (which 
see). After her death here, the house was bought by Charles Hos- 
mer Walcott, author of " Concord in the Colonial Period " and 
" Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill," — a sketch of one of the 
British prisoners of war in Concord jail. James Lyman Whitney 
(1835- ), formerly Librarian of the Boston Public Library, and 
eminent in bibliography, has also lived in this house. Shortly before 
his death in New Haven, "William James Linton (181 2-1898) spent 
some little time in this home of Mrs. Austin. He was the husband 
of the English novelist, Eliza Lynn Linton, and himself a poet and 
wood-engraver. (" History of Wood-Engraving in America ; " 
" Claribel, and Other Poems.") 

Other names which have to a greater or less degree honored the 
roll of Concord are the Rev. Gf indall Reynolds (1822-1S94), Ed- 
ward Jarvis, the statistician ( 1S03- 1884), William Willder Wheildon, 
the antiquarian (1S05-1 89 2), William Stevens Robinson (1818-1876), 
who, under the signature of " Warrington," won a high place in 
journalism, Frederick West Holland and his son, Frederic May 
Holland ( 1 836- ), Judge John Shepard Keyes, and, so it is handed 
down, George Horatio Derby {1823-1861), better known as that 
excellent early humorist " John Phoenix," who is said to have worked 
here in his youth. 

SALEM 

" Salem they call the spot." — Jones Very 

A half-hour's ride from the North Station takes one 
to Salem, a city as well worth visiting for its literary as 
for its historical memories. Perhaps no other place in 
this country has the effect of being so " complete " Its 
churches, schools, museums, libraries, its varied institu- 
tional equipment, and especially its private residences 
speak of an honorable and successful past, while the activ- 
ity of a modern manufacturing city gives no suggestion 
that Salem stops to rest on the laurels of its reputation. 



SALEM 



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The accurate "Visitors' Guide " to Salem, prepared by 
the Essex Institute, is ahnost indispensable. 

The first thought of a visitor to Salem is naturally di- 




BIRTHPLACE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 

SALEM 

rected to Nathaniel Hawthorne, for here he was born, 
here he met and wooed Miss Sophia Peabody, and here 
his lonely genius came to fruition, until it ripened into 
that most perfect of his creations, " The Scarlet Letter." 

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804- 1864). Born, July 4, 1804, in the 
northwest chamber, second story, of 27 Union Street^ which was 
built before 1685 and is little changed since Hawthorne's day. 
From 1808 to 1818, and later on, especially in the thirties, he lived 
at 10 J/2-J2 Herbert Street, in the rear of his birthplace. This 
house belonged to his maternal ancestors, the Mannings, and was 
built about 1790. In the southwest corner of the third story, best 
seen from Union Street, is the room " under the eaves " where 
" fame was won," for here he wrote the first volume of the " Twice 
Told Tales," and later completed the " Mosses from an Old Manse." 
In 1 828-1 832 he lived at 26 Dearborn Street, now opposite its ori- 
ginal site. After his marriage and return to Salem in 1846, he lived 



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for sixteen months at J8 Chestnut Street, and then till 1849 at J4 
Mall Street. His study, where he wrote the " wSnow Image " and 
" Scarlet Letter," is the front room of the third story. No. 53 
Charter Street, called the " Dr. Grimshawe house," was the home 
where Sophia Peabody lived when Hawthorne sought her as his 
wife. It borders on one side of the Charter Street Cemetery, the 
oldest in Salem, where are buried the witch-judge, " Colonel John 
Hathorne," an ancestor of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Nathaniel, 
brother of the famous Cotton Mather, who died at nineteen years of 
age of a plethora of erudition. The House of the Seven Gables by 
popular but unverified tradition is 54 Turner Street. In the south- 
west front room of the Custom House (Derby Street), now modern- 
ized, Hawthorne discharged his official duties as Surveyor of the 
Port. In this building were inspired the immortal " Scarlet Letter " 
and its hardly less famous introduction. See also Concord. 

Rev. William Bentley (1759-1819), somewhat of a theologian, 
somewhat of a politician, who wrote on Salem history, and was 
known as a linguist, lived at 106 Essex Street. 

William Hickling Prescott (i 796-1859), born in the Joseph Pea- 
body mansion (pictures of it are in the Essex Institute), on the site 
of the present Plummer Hall, J34 Essex Street. His portrait by 
J. Harvey Young hangs in the State Normal School, junction of 
Lafayette Street and Loring Avenue. See also Introduction, and 
Boston : Beacon Street. 

Roger "Williams (i 599-1683). The oldest house in Salem is 310 
Essex, Hawthorne's " Main " Street, corner North Street. It was 
built before 1635, ^^^ ^^'^^ inhabited by Roger Williams, when he 
was minister of the First Church (i 634-1 635), before he fled to 
Rhode Island, and before he had written the " Bloudy Tenent " 
and other tracts so irritating to the brethren of the Massachusetts 
Bay. Afterwards occupied by Jonathan Corwin, a witch-judge. 
Often called the Old Witch House. 

Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-187 5), pastor of the First 
Church, and seventh mayor of Salem, lived at 313 Essex Street, and 
earlier on the corner of Church and Washington streets, hard by 
spots closely identified with the witchcraft period of which he is 
the authoritative historian. (" Salem Witchcraft," 2 vols.) 

Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814), afterwards and better known 
as Count Rumford. Apprenticed to John Appleton in Salem in 
1766, he worked in a store at 314 Essex Street. See also Boston : 
North End. 

George Bailey Loring (1817-1891). Versed in the merits of 
scientific agriculture, and long prominent in national politics. 



SALEM 51 

(" Farmyard Club of Jotham ; " " A Year in Portugal ; " and various 
published orations and historical studies.) Lived at 328 Essex 
Street^ a house now much changed. 

"William Frederick Poole (1821-1894), born in Salem, 133 Main 
Street (now within the limits of Peabody). Dr. Poole was eminent 
as a bibliographer, librarian, and historian, and particularly as the 
author of the useful " Poole's Index." His portrait hangs in the 
Library of the Essex Institute. 

Rev. Joseph Barlow Felt (1789-1S69), the historian of Salem 
(" Annals of Salem," 2 vols.), and author of other important histori- 
cal works, among them " The Ecclesiastical History of New Eng- 
land." Lived at 27 Norman Street. 

Benjamin Peirce (i 809-1880), renowned mathematician and as- 
tronomer, was born in Salem, at 35 Warren Street^ in the " Tontine 
Block." 

John Pickering (1777-1846), born in Salem, philologist, learned 
in about twenty-five languages, but especially in Greek and the 
American Indian dialects. He lived at 18 Chestnut Street^ and was 
the son of the famous Timothy Pickering, who was born in Salem 
at 18 Broad Street, built probably as early as 1659, and one of 
Salem's most picturesque mansions. 

Sarah "West Lander (1819-1872), born in Salem, w^as the sister of 
General Frederick W. Lander, himself an author of patriotic verses 
and an intrejDid soldier, and of Louisa Lander, the sculptor, both of 
whom were also born in Salem. Miss Lander was the author of a 
series of books of extraordinary popularity in their day, entitled, 
" Spectacles for Young Eyes," dealing with travels in foreign coun- 
tries. Lived at 5 Summer Street. 

Joseph Warren Fabens {1821-1875), born in Salem, consul at 
Cayenne and Nicaragua. He was the author of that popular song, 
"The Last Cigar," and other verses, and wrote " Story of I^ife in 
the Isthmus ; " " The Camel Hunt ; " and " In the Tropics." Lived 
at 22 High Street. 

Abner Cheney Goodell (1831- ), editor of the Province Laws 
of Massachusetts, and author of historical and antiquarian works. 
He lives at 4 Federal Street^ in a house into which is thought to be 
incorporated a part of the frame of the jail wherein the " witches " 
were confined, previous to the jail delivery of 1693. 

Jones Very (1813-1880), born in Salem. His father's house was 
at the corner of Essex and Boston streets, but he lived for many 
years and died at J54 Federal Street. Of the poems of this Ameri- 
can quietist, Emerson said that they bear " the unquestionable 
stamp of grandeur." and of the poet himself, E. A. Silsbee said that 



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SALEM 



" he moved in Salem like Dante among the Florentines." His 
younger sister, Lydia L. A, Very, a teacher, and author of several 
stories, lived at 154 Federal Street. Another sister and a brother 
were also of a literary turn. 

Joseph Emerson "Worcester (1784-1865), the lexicographer, at one 
time kept a school in a building, the site of which is in the yard 
of the First Baptist Church on Federal Street. Hawthorne was 
one of his pupils. See also Cambridge. 

Nathaniel Bowditch (17 73-1838), born in Salem, in a house now 
on KimbaU Courts in the rear of its former site, No. 2 Brown Street. 




HOME OF JOSEPH AND WILLIAM WETMORE STORY 

SALEM 



In this house also was born the Rev. Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), 
author of a learned work, " Oriental Religions : China, India, Per 



sia, 



m 3 vols. Later Bowditch lived at 312 Essex Street. In 



the Essex Institute is the desk on which he translated the " Meca- 
nique Celeste " of La Place. His portrait, by Charles Osgood, is in 
the ofifice of the Salem Marine Society in the Franklin Building, 
corner of Essex Street and Washington Square. 

Robert S. Rantoul (1832- ), son of Robert Rantoul, now Presi- 
dent of the Essex Institute, ex-Mayor of Salem, is a writer on his- 
torical matters, and lives at J7 "Winter Street, one of Salem's 
mansions of typical simplicity and elegance. 



SALEM 53 

"William "Wetmore Story (1819-1895), sculptor and litterateur, 
born at 26 Winter Street^ in the house built by his father, Judge 
Joseph Story^ in iSii. The cradle of these eminent men is in the 
Essex Institute. Judge Story's wooden law-office is, after several 
rernoves, now in Creek Street. See also Cambridge. 

Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883), born in Salem, in the 
house on the corner of Arbella and Bridge streets. Accomplished 
in many fields of literature, his reputation rests on his translations, 
particularly of Jean Paul Richter. Lived at 38 Washington Square. 

Edward Sylvester Morse (1838- ). Has lived most of the 
time in Salem since 1866 at J 2 Linden Street. A highly trained 
scientist, of great versatility, and an expert in matters Japanese, 
especially pottery. His Japanese collection is now in the Museum 
of Fine Arts in Boston. 

George Barrell Cheever (1807-1890), a preacher of strong char- 
acter and convictions, who preached at the Howard Street Church, 
was as ardent a foe of slavery and intemperance as he was a warm 
apologist of the gallows. He wrote " Studies in Poetry," and 
" Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth," and edited excellent an- 
thologies of prose and poetry. 

In Salem also was born, in 1827, Maria S. Cummins, author, 
among other stories, of " The Lamplighter," of which 40,000 copies 
were sold in two months. She died in Dorchester in 1866. 



SALEM INSTITUTIONS 

Essex Institute. J32 Essex Street. Contains about 450,000 vol- 
umes and many valuable manuscripts, besides furniture, utensils, 
costumes, arms, and other belongings of colonial days. Among the 
curiosities of every sort, reminiscent of a dignified past, the literary 
pilgrim will find of especial interest the desk on which Hawthorne 
wrote a part of " The Scarlet Letter," and the christening robes of 
Governor William Bradford, rendition of whose manuscript of the 
history of the " Plimoth Plantation " to Massachusetts made so 
agreeable a sensation a few years ago. 

Peabody Academy of Science. 10 1 Essex Street. Strong in col- 
lections of natural history and ethnology, besides relics of Salem 
when it held its high position as a shipping port. Of special value 
is the East India Marine Society collection. 

Salem Athenaeum. In Plummer Hall, 134 Essex Street. Con- 
tains about 24,000 volumes ; modeled somewhat after the pattern 
of the Boston Athenaeum, 



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BEVERLY 



BEVERLY 

Beyond Salem and across the Beverly bridge lies Beverly. Here, 
at the corner of Main and Wallace streets, lived the poet, Lucy 
Larcom (1824-1893), who wrote, besides verses, "A New England 
dirlhood." The manuscript of her " Hannah Binding Shoes " is 




HOME OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 
AMESBURY 



in the possession of the Beverly Historical Society (Burley mansion 
on Cabot Street). Lucy Larcom was a valued friend and literary 
associate of "Whittier. On Cabot Street is the birthplace of "W^ilson 
Flagg (1S05-1884), an early name in natural history as presented 
through literary interpretation. Near the Common stands the an- 
cestral home and summer residence of George Edward Woodberry 
(1855- ), Professor of Literature in Columbia College, poet, 
essayist, editor, and critic. (" Life of Edgar Allan Poe ; " " Na- 
thaniel Hawthorne; " "The North Shore Watch ; " "The Heart of 
Man ; " etc.) Beverly was also the home of Frederick Albion Ober 
(1849- ), naturalist, and author of works of travel and stories 
for young people. (" Knockabout Club " books ; " Porto Rico ; " 
" History of the West Indies ; " etc.) Now in Washington. 

Beverly was the birthplace of Whittier's friend, Robert Rantoul 



BROOKLINE 55 

(1805-1852), who was active in the introduction of the lyceum sys- 
tem, and a powerful opponent of the Fugitive-Slave Law. (" Me- 
moirs, Speeches, and Writings.") 

Beyond Beverly and near the Beverly Farms railroad station is 
the attractive but modest house where Oliver Wendell Holmes 
spent his summers ; while beyond the limits set to this pilgrim 
age, and yet at no great distance from Boston or Salem, are three 
important literary shrines — homes of John Greenleaf Whittier 
( 1 807-1 892), one in Amesbury, one in Danvers, and his birthplace in 
East Haverhill, so graphically described in " Snow-Bound." The 
last of these is now owned by a Whittier Memorial Association, and, 
like the Amesbury house, is open to the public. 

BROOKLINE 

Brookline, the wealthiest town in the country, and, it 
is said, in the world, in proportion to its population, and 
perhaps the most beautiful in Massachusetts, became 
a separate township in 1705, and has ever since made 
a most stubborn resistance to all appeals and pressure 
in favor of a union with Boston. On all sides have its 
sisters succumbed, until Brookline now is literally in the 
arms of its parent city even though not of it, being, with 
the exception of some two miles of Newton boundary, 
completely surrounded by Boston. Longwood, its north- 
eastern corner and one of its loveliest parts, is hardly to 
be distinguished from that portion of the Metropolitan 
Park System against which it lies. In this coy suburb 
are scattered the homes of a number of authors who 
have helped to make and still contribute to the literature 
of Boston past and present. 

George S. Hillard (see Boston : Pinckney Street) spent the last 
three years of his life and died in Mountfort Street, Longwood. 
The Rev, Julius H, Ward (see Roxbury) had residence at 13 
Waverly Street from 1890 until his death in 1897. The historian, 
George Makepeace Towle (i 841-1893), lived on Walnut Place and 
did much of his work here. (" The History of Henry the Fifth, 
King of England, Lord of Ireland and Heir of France ; " " American 
Society ; " " England in Egypt." ) 



56 BROOKLINE 

No, 380 Longwood Avenue. Borden Parker Bowne (1847- 
). Professor of Philosophy in Boston University. " Studies in 
Theism ; " " The Principles of Ethics ; " etc.) 

Beacon Street, " Richmond Court." Ralph Adams Cram (1863- 

). Architect, author. (" The Decadent, being the Gospel of 

Inaction;" "Church Building;" "Black wSpirits and White;" etc.) 

No. 49 "Warren. Street. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822- ) 
Celebrated landscape architect. Secretary of the Sanitary Commis 
sion during the Civil War. (" Walks and Talks of an American 
Farmer in England ; " " A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States.") 

Further down Warren Street is the estate of Charles Sprague 
Sargent (1 84 1- ). An eminent arboriculturist. Editor of " Gar 
den and Forest" from 1888. ("The Silva of North America;' 
" The Woods of the United States ; " " Forest Flora of Japan.") 

On Clyde Street, just off Warren, is the home of the late James 
Elliot Cabot (1821-1903), whose principal work was "A Memoir 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson," in 2 vols. 

No. 3 Regent Circle. Edward H. Clement (1843- ). Since 
1 901. Previously on Marlborough Street, Boston. Editor of the 
" Boston Transcript." (" Vinland," an Ode; etc.) 

No. 76 High Street. Edward Stan wood ( 1 8 4 1 - ) . Journal- 
ist, author, and editor, especially of the " Youth's Companion." 
("A History of the Presidency;" " History of Cotton Manufacture 
in New England; " etc.) 

No. 222 High Street. Eliza Orne White (1856- ). A writer 
of fiction. (" The Coming of Theodora;" " Miss Brooks.") 

No. 389 Walnut Street. Agnes Blake Poor. Another writer of 
clever fiction. (" Brothers and Strangers ; " " Boston Neighbours." ) 

No. 30 Upland Road. Charles Knowles BoUon (1867- ). 
Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum (see Boston : Beacon Street). 
The son of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, and himself the author of several 
books. (" The Private Soldier under Washington.") 

On Fisher Avenue opposite Dean Road is the home of Julia 
Parker Dabney ( 1850- ), an artist and novelist, whose "Little 
Daughter of the Sun " won speedy recognition. 



INDEX 



Abbott, Jacob, 14. 

Adams, Charles Follen, 34. 

Adams, Charles Francis, 10; C. F., Jr., 

Adams, W. T. (" Oliver Optic '■), 31 • 

Agassiz, L. J. R., 42. 

Alcott, A. Bronson, 12, 14, 35, 45, 46. 

Alcott, Louisa M., 12, 14, 15, 33, 46. 

Aldrich, T. B., 10, 15, 17, 41. 

Alger, Rev. W. R., and Abby L., 19. 

Ames, Rev. C. G., 7. 

Amory, T. C, 27. 

Appleton, T. G., 7, 26, 27. 

Apthorp, W. F., 19. 

Austin, Jane G., 33, 48. 

Bacon, E. M., 14, 16, 38, 44. 

Ballou, M. M., 14, 17, 23 ; Rev. Hosea, 

17- 
Bartol, Rev. C. A., 8. 
Bates, Arlo, 9, 19; Harriet E , 9. 
Bentiey, Rev. William, 50. 
Bergengren, Ralph, and Anna F., 28, 29. 
Blake, Mary E., 4, 31. 
Bolton, C. K., 3, 56. 
Booth, Edwin, 8. 
Boston Athenaeum, 3. • 
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 52. 
Bowne, B. P., 56. 
Brook Farm, 34, 35. 
Brooks, C. T., 53. 
Brooks, Phillips, 28. 
Brown, Abbie F., 16. 
Brown, Alice, 9, 15. 
Burgess, Gelett, 30. 
Burgoyne, Gen. John, 38, 40. 
Burton, Richard, 28. 
Butterworth, Hezekiah, 30. 
Bynner, E. L., 36. 
Cabot, J. E., 56. 
Carpenter, Rev. H. B., 9. 
Channing, Rev. W. E., 11; W. E., 

poet, 46. 
Cheever, Rev. G- B., 53. 
Cheney, Ednah D., 36. 
Child, F. J., 42. 
Claflin, Mary B., 10. 
Clarke, Helen A., 17. 
Clarke, James Freeman, 16. 21, 35. 
Clement, E. H., 56. 
Cocke, Zitella, 15. 
Coffin, C. C.,28. 
Conway, Katherine E., 33. 
Cook, Rev. Joseph, i, 3. 
Cram, R. A., 56. 

Curtis, G. W., and Burrill, 35, 47. 
Cummins, Maria S., 31, 53. 
Dabney, Julia P., 56. 
Dana, R. H., 9 ; R. H., 2d., 6,41. 
Deland, Margaret W., 10, 12, 29. 
Derby, G. H. ("John Phoenix"), 48. 
Dexter, Morton, 26. 
Dole, Rev. C. F., 35 ; N. H., 35. 
Drake, F. S., S. A., and S. G., 33, 34. 
Dresser, H. W., 28. 
Dwight, J. S., 15, 23, 34. 



I Edes, H. H., 37. 
! Eliot, C. W., 43. 

Eliot, John, 31,32. 
' Eliot, Samuel, 19. 

Elson, Arthur, and L. C, 6. 

Emerson, R. W., 35, 38, 44, 45. 

Fabens, J. W., 51. 

Fall, Charles G., 26. 

Felt, Rev. J. B., 51. 

Felton, C. C., 43. 

Fields, James T., and Mrs. Annie, 17, 18. 

Fiske, John, 39. 

Flagg, Wilson, 54. 

Foote, Rev. H. W., 19. 

Ford, W. C, 22. 

Frothingham, Ellen, 27; N. L., 36; 
O. B., 25; R., 36. 

Fuller, Anna, 27. 

Fuller, Margaret, 22, 35, 38, 47. 

Garrison, W. L., 32. 

Goodell, A. C, 51. 

Gordon, Rev. G. A., 24. 

Grant, Judge Robert, 29. 

Green, Dr. S. A., 22, 24. 

Greene, Nathaniel, g. 

(ireenslet, P'erris, 29. 

Griffis, W. E., 30. 

(iuild, Curtis, Sr., lo. 

Guiney, Louise L, 14. 

Hale, E. E., i, 31, 32 ; Lucretia P., 17, 
32. 

Hall, Gertrude, 28. 

Harbour, J. L., 31. 

Hawthorne, N., 14, 35, 44, 45, 49, 50, 

52, 53- 
Hawthorne, Sophia, 16, 22, 44, 50. 
Haynes, H. W., 4. 
Higginson, T. W., 41. 
Hill, A. S., 19. 
Hillard, G. S., 14, 15, 55. 
Hoar, Judge E. R., 47, 48. 
Hoar, G. F., 47, 48. 
Hoar, Samuel, 47. 
Holland, F. M., and F. W., 48. 
Holmes, O. W, 5, 18, 19, 55; Judge 

O. W., 5, 19. 
Horton, Rev. E. A., 24. 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2, 21. 
Howe, Julia Ward, 4, 8, 10, 23. 
Howe, M. A. DeW., 12. 
Howells, W. D., 6, 12, 27, 41. 
Hudson, Frederic, 47. 
Hunnewell, J. F., 5, 36. 
Jackson, E. P., 31. 
James, Henry, and Henry, Jr., 16. 
Jennison, Lucy W., 18, 27. 
Jewett, Sarah O., iS. 
Johnson, Rev. Samuel, 52. 
Kimball, Hannah P., 27. 
King, Rev. Thomas Starr, 22, 37. 
Knowlton, Helen M., 23. 
Lander, Sarah W., 51. 
Lane, Anna (Eichberg), 26. 
Larcom, Lucy, 54. 
Lathrop, G. P., and Rose, 7, 45. 



JUjg 1 1903 



INDEX 



Lee, Martha Agnes, 36. 

Linton. W. J., 48. 

Lloyd, H. U., 4. 

Lodge, H. C, 3. 

Long, John D., 6, 10. 

Longfellow, H. W., 39,40; Samuel, 40. 

Loring, G. B., 50. 

Lothrop, Harriett M., 25, 45. 

Lowell, A. L., 25. 

Lowell, E. J., 25, 27. 

Lowell, Judge F. C, 4. 

Lowell, J. R., 4, 40; Maria (White), 41. 

Lowell, Percival, 16. 

Lunt, George, and Adeline T. , 15, 16. 

Mann, Horace, 16. 

Martineau, Harriet, 22. 

Mason, Lowell, 14, 17. 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 24. 

Mather, Increase, house of, 20. 

Mather, Nathaniel, 50. 

Mathers, The, tomb of, 20. 

Mead, E. D., and Lucia T., 14. 

Merwin, H. C, 16. 

Morse, E. S., 53. 

Morse, Jedidiah, 36; S. F. B., 37, 

Morse, John T. , Jr., 29. 

Motley, J. L., i, 6, 7, 23. 

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 30. 

Norton, C. E., 40, 42; Rev. Andrews, 
42. 

Ober, F. A., 54. 

Olmsted, F. L., 56. 

O'Reilly, John Boyle, 25, 36. 

Otis, Mrs. H. G., 10. 

Palfrey, J. G. , 9, 12, 42; Sarah H., 42. 

Parker, Rev. Theodore, 35, 36. 

Parkman, Francis, 7, 9. 

Parsons, Dr. T. W., 16, 22. 

Peabody, Rev. A. P., 43. 

Peabody, Elizabeth P., 14, 16, 22, 35. 

Peabody, Sophia. See Hawthorne, So- 
phia. 

Peirce, Benjamin, 51. 

Perkins, C. C., 6. 

Perkins, F. B., 31. 

Perry, T. S., and Lilla C., 25, 26. 

Phillips, Wendell, 6, 7, 22. 

Pickering, John, 51. 

Poole, W. F.,51. 

Poor, Agnes B., 56. 

Porter, Charlotte, 17. 

Prescott, W. H., iv, 4, 50. 

Prince, Helen Choate, 8. 

Ouincy, Edmund, 3. 

Quincy, Josiah (d. 1864), 2,4; Josiah (d. 
1882), 20. 

Quincy, Josiah P., 17. 

Radical Club, 7. 

Rantoul, Robert, 54. 

Rantoul, R. S., 52. 

Reed, Edwin, 29. 

Reed, Helen L., 25, 27. 

Rhodes, J. F., 6. 

Riedesel, Baroness, 40. 

Ripley, Rev. Ezra, 44. 

Robinson, Edith, 4. 

Roche, James Jeffrey, 29. 

Ropes, J. C, 12. 

Rowson, Susanna, 22. 



St. Botolph Club, 29. 

Sanborn, F. B., 43, 46. 

Sargent, C. S., 56. 

Sargent, Epes, 34. 

Sargent, Mrs. J. T., 7. 

Savage, Rev. M. J., 29 ; P. H., 4, 29. 

Sawyer, Walter Leon, 30. 

Schouler, James, 23. 

Scudder, H. E., 41 ; Vida D., 29. 

Shaw, F. G., 36. 

Slafter, Rev. E. F., 28. 

Sparks, Jared, 16, 40, 43. 

Spofford, Harriet P., 20. 

Sprague, C J., 26, 30. 

Stanwood, Edward, 56. 

Stevens, B. F., 15. 

Stimson, F. J., 26. 

Storey, Moorlield, 29. 

Story, W. Vy., 53. 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 20- 

Sullivan, T. R., 29. 

Sumner, Charles, 16. 

Swett, Samuel, 16. 

Thaxter, A. W., 10. 

Thaxter, Celia, 15. 

Thompson, B., Count Rumford, 20, 50. 

Thoreau, H. D., 46, 47. 

Ticknor, Caroline, 35. 

Ticknor, George, 2, 3. 

Towle, G. M., ss- 

Train, Elizabeth P., 25. 

Trine, R. W., 30. 

True, J. P., 33- 

Union Club, 2. 

Upham, Rev. C. W. , 50. 

Upham, Grace Le B., 25. 

Very, Rev. Jones, 51, 52; Lydia L. A. 

52. 
Vincent, Leon H., 28. 
Walker, F. A., 4. 
Ward, Rev. J. H., 33, 55- 
Ward, May Alden, 28. 
Warren, Cornelia, 10. 
Waters, Clara E. W., 6. 
Wells, Kate G., 24, 27. 
Wendell, Barrett, 26. 
Wesselhoeft, Elizabeth F., 24, 27. 
Wheeler, W. A., 33. 
Wheelwright, J. T., 12. 
Wheildon, W. W.,48. 
Whipple, E. P., 14. 
White, Eliza O., 56. 
Whiting, Lilian, 23. 
Whitmore, W. H., 30. 
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., 11. 
Whitney, Anne, 6, 12. 
Whittier, J. G., 10, 54, 55. 
Willard, A. R., 27. 
Williams, Dr. Harold, 6. 
Williams, Roger, 50. 
Winslow, Mrs. Erving, 28. 
Winslow, Helen AL, 33. 
Winsor, Justin, 30. 
Winthrop, R. C., 4, 25. 
Wood, Henry, 33. 
Woodberry, G. E., 54. 
Woods, R. A., 30. 
Worcester, J. E., 39, 52. 
Young, Alexander, 3. 



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